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Kevin Lynch Memorial Unveiling
A memorial stone in honour of hunger striker Kevin Lynch will be unveiled on Sunday May 24th at 7.30pm in Park Village, County Derry. The guest speaker will be Martin McGuinness.
On This Day
Twenty-eight years ago, on 12th May, 1981, 25-year-old IRA Volunteer Francis Hughes from Bellaghy, South Derry, died after fifty nine days on hunger strike. At the time of his arrest in March 1978, after a gun battle with the SAS, Francis was the most wanted man in...
Sean McCaughey Anniversary
On May 11, 1946 Sean McCaughey died after thirty-one days on hunger strike, the last twelve on thirst strike, for his unconditional release. After his death, and partially as a result of the publicity detailing the horrific conditions under which he was imprisoned,...
Bik for London Discussion, 17th May
Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, a member of the Bobby Sands Trust, will be speaking in the Phoenix Cinema, 52 High Road, East Finchley, N2 9PJ after a special-screening of the film ‘Hunger’ on Sunday 17th May at 2pm. For tickets telephone 020 8444 6789 or email –...
Friendships Forged
On the anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands Gerry Adams has paid a personal tribute to Bobby and his comrades who died on hunger strike twenty-eight years ago. Bobby Sands is one of my friends. I am using the present tense very deliberately when I write Bobby is...
On This Day
At 1.17am on the morning of Tuesday, 5th May, 1981, after sixty-six days on hunger strike, Bobby Sands died in his cell in the prison hospital of the H-Blocks surrounded by his mother, father, his sister Marcella and brother Sean. The Bobby Sands Trust remembers...
“Without the people…”
Last Friday, 1st May, Sinn Fein MEP Bairbre de Brún, delivered the Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture in Cumann na Meirleach [Felons Club] Belfast. She took as her theme, ‘Countess Markievicz and the 100th anniversary of Na Fianna Éireann’. This is her speech: Young people...
On This Day
Friday 1st May, 1981, as Bobby Sands nears death, supporters of the hunger strikers occupy the Labour Party headquarters in London. It was the British Labour Party who introduced the policy of criminalisation and the withdrawal of political status for anyone convicted...
“It’s a shame they didn’t get her”
Today’s edition of the London ‘Independent’, on the thirtieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher first becoming British Prime Minister, takes opinions on what effects her premiership had on a cross-section of people, including her treatment of the hunger strikers....
Christy Moore on the Late, Late
Great interview with Christy Moore on the Pat Kenny show available on RTE's Media Player. Below, we also reproduce Christy Moore's contribution to the Hunger Strike essay book, published by the Bobby Sands Trust in 2006. I Will Sing - Christy Moore O’Hara,...
