Here are two further songs about Bobby Sands. The first, ‘Bobby Sands’ by French Rock group Soldat Louis who mix traditional Breton music with rock can be listened to here. The second song is by Cork singer/songwriter Bébhinn Hurley whose single ‘Bobby’ went to number...

Martin Lynch’s play, ‘The Chronicles of Long Kesh’, has gone down a storm at the Edinburgh Fringe and negotiations are taking place for further productions of the drama which covers life in the notorious prison from the time it opened in September 1971, through to its...

Today, August 20th, is the twenty-eighth anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Micky Devine from Derry. Twenty-seven-year-old Micky Devine, from the Creggan, was the third INLA Volunteer to join the H-Block hunger strike to the death. Micky took over as O/C of...

“Bobby Sands was our O/C and he led us. Our comrades, Frank, Raymond, Patsy, Joe, Martin, Kevin, Kieran, Tom and Mickey, stepped forward to join him and they showed us leadership…” - Padraic Wilson, speaking at the hunger strike commemoration in West Belfast on Sunday...

Republicans from across the country turned out in their thousands on Sunday 16th August, to remember the sacrifice of the H-Block hunger strikers and, before them, Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg [from Mayo] who died while imprisoned in England during the 1970s....

Veteran journalist David McKittrick was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Westminster Hour’ (26th July) and related a conversation with a Tory MP who thought the British government had won the hunger strike, though McKittrick soon corrected that perception. The...

A vigil and wreath laying ceremony is to take place in West Belfast on Sunday, 2nd August, at 12 noon to mark the 28th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Volunteer Kieran Doherty TD. Speaking in advance of the vigil and wreath laying ceremony, Sinn Fein MLA...

For the first time the National Hunger Strike march will be taking place in County Tyrone, remembering all the hunger strikers and in particular Tyrone’s Martin Hurson who was the sixth prisoner to die, on the 13th July, 1981. The march will assemble in Galbally at...

On this day, Monday 13th July 1981, 24-year-old Martin Hurson from County Tyrone died after forty six days on hunger strike. Martin had joined the hunger striker in late May, replacing Brendan McLoughlin who had been forced to drop out because of a burst stomach...

A series of anniversary vigils will take place across Belfast on Wednesday, 8th July, to mark the 28th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell. Joe, a 30 year old married man with two children from the Lenadoon area of West Belfast,...