Lisnaskea barracks in Fermanagh (see photograph) was just one of many attacks carried out by the IRA during its 1956-62 border campaign. Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare reviews a new book about this campaign, ‘Operation Harvest’, by Belfast author Barry Flynn. Like...

Edinburgh-based singer songwriter David Heavenor has written a song about Bobby Sands on his new CD. Heavenor says: “Sometimes ideas and subjects for songs seem to come from nowhere. I’d always had this idea about ‘Bobby in the Wire, Bobby in the War’ and it turned...

Veteran republican Gerry O’Hare did time, both as an internee and a sentenced prisoner, in Crumlin Road Jail between 1971 and 1973.  He also served sentences in Long Kesh, Mountjoy Jail and Portlaoise Jail. Here he reviews ‘The Crum’ by Patrick Greg. I have never read...

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...