Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare reviews former POW Síle Darragh’s memoir of life for imprisoned women during the struggle for political status: It is a grey hulk so familiar to us all.  Armagh Women’s Gaol.  The very name is redolent of another age. But, it has to be...

The BBC has produced a website dedicated to the story of the protest for political status, including the blanket protest and the two hunger strikes, involving footage that has been rarely seen. Five short videos are used to illustrate the atmosphere between 1976 and...

Former hunger striker Laurence McKeown, in a powerful analysis of 1981, writes of the legacy of that historic period, how it informs today’s struggle for freedom and independence and how republicans and unionists can attempt to come to terms with the past. Laurence...

                      Síle Darragh was the IRA O/C in Armagh Gaol during the hunger strike in 1980 and until her release in 1981. Earlier this month her book about her time in jail during the protest for political status was launched during Féile an Phobail in West...

Thousands of republicans from across Ireland and many overseas supporters marched through Camlough last Sunday, in the national commemoration to honour the 1981 hunger strikers and Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg who had died on hunger strike in English jails in 1974...

Last Sunday a commemoration was held in Bellaghy in honour of Tom McElwee, the ninth republican prisoner to die during the 1981 hunger strike. The parade assembled at McElwee’s home place in Tamlaghduff and was led by a group of ex-POWs carrying photographs of the...

Details have now been released of the events in South Armagh preceding the National Commemoration march in South Armagh on 14th August to honour the hunger strikers, and other events up until the end of August. Saturday/Sunday, 6th/7th August - Bellaghy Social Club,...

A former blanketman from West Belfast, Seamus Kearney, has come up with a novel idea for a reunion of all those prisoners who took part in the H-Blocks and Armagh Jail protests and has taken it upon himself to fund and organise a reunion. “Thirty years have passed...

25th July (Mon) - Arklow Art Galery, Main Street, Arklow, Co. Wicklow - National Exhibition 1.30am to 9.30pm. Panel discussion 7.30pm - Main speaker ex-H-Block POW John Connolly 26th/27th July (Tues/Wed) - Ballycolman Community Centre, Strabane - National Exhibition...

Joe McDonnell WeekendThursday 7th July - National Exhibition in Rodaís 4 - 8pm     Friday 8th July - National Exhibition in Rodaís 12 noon - 8pm Saturday 9th July - National Exhibition in Rodaís 12 noon - 4pm Friday 9th July - White Line Picket Connolly House...