In 1920, the then King of England sought to intervene during the fatal hunger strike by Cork-born Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney. On this occasion, however, far from the usual “Off with his head!” when confronted by a rebellious subject in Ireland, the King was...

Unthinkable, years ago, during the reign of the West Brit revisionists at RTE and the stringent application of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act there, it was ironical but also timely that RTE should discuss the hunger strike on its 30th anniversary from the human as...

It has been announced that Mass in memory of the 1981 hunger strikers and for their families will be celebrated in Clonard Monastery, West Belfast, on Sunday, 13th February at 4pm. Afterwards, refreshments will be served in Clonard Hall where there will be a...

Last December 1st, on the 30th anniversary of the hunger strike by three women in Armagh Gaol, the majority of the women who had participated in the no-work and no-wash protests there gathered for a special reunion and commemoration. The women came from north, east...

Pat Sheehan, an IRA Volunteer longest on the 1981 hunger strike when it ended, is featured in an article simultaneously published in today’s Belfast Telegraph and the London Independent. Pat, a widower with a young son to the late Siobhan O’Hanlon, served a total of...

This feature, by Danny Morrison, Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust appeared in the ‘Andersonstown News’, 3rd January 2011: A lot of the ‘state papers’ just issued in Dublin, Belfast and London under the 30-year rule relate to the 1980 hunger strike. Some of the...

Responding to a comment from a Conservative MP, calling for Irish prisoners in British jails to be transferred back to Ireland, Danny Morrison, recalls how throughout the conflict the British government adopted the opposite stance and cruelly refused to repatriate...

Events to commemorate the 30th anniversaries of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes continue next Wednesday in Belfast. On December 1st 1980 three women prisoners in Armagh Jail joined seven hunger strikers from the H-Blocks in an escalation of the protest demanding...

This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the deaths of former Lord Mayors of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney. It is also the 90th Anniversary of the Burning of Cork. The events of 1920 are important in a national context, but carry even greater significance...

Dónal Donnelly, author of ‘Prisoner 1082 - Escape From Crumlin Road’ will be a guest speaker at the Peadar O Donnell Weekend in County Donegal. This cultural/literary series of events, held annually during the second last weekend of October, celebrates the life and...