The Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, Danny Morrison, has called for a retraction from Liam Clarke that he [Morrison] visited the hunger strikers twice on Sunday, 5th July, the second time with IRSP member Sean Flynn. Once again, Liam Clarke preferred to publish...

An attempt by the ‘Sunday Times’ [5th April] to call into question the republican leadership’s handling of the 1981 hunger strike by publishing British government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act has actually boomeranged on the reporter who...

Ceartais is a lobby group of former Long Kesh Prisoners and their families who are campaigning to reveal the truth behind the exposure of Long Kesh prisoners to CR gas used by the British army on October 15th, 1974, during the disturbances and burning down of the...

The death has occurred in Belfast of veteran republican Marie Moore, a founding member of the Bobby Sands Trust. Marie’s remarkable life story [see below] was recorded in the book of Hunger Strike essays published in 2006. Marie was buried in St Joseph’s cemetery,...

  “There was absolutely no change in the government’s position.” An unpublished interview with Sir John Blelloch, a member of MI5 who had been seconded to the NIO as a Deputy Secretary at the time of the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes, has come into the possession of...

Today, 15th March, 1981, IRA Volunteer Francis Hughes from Bellaghy in South Derry, joined Bobby Sands on hunger strike. Twenty-five-year-old Francis Hughes was a determined, committed and totally fearless IRA Volunteer who organised a spectacularly successful series...

On 22nd February last the ‘Sunday Times’ journalist Liam Clarke wrote about the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis which was taking place that weekend and the problems the party faced with the electorate in the twenty-six counties. The feature was titled, ‘Sinn Fein is turning into...

Today, Sunday, 1st March, is the twenty-eighth anniversary of the start of Bobby Sands' hunger strike. This is what he wrote in his diary on Sunday, 1st March, 1981: I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul. My heart is...

We have added more songs in the Multimedia section, including versions of 'Kevin Barry' by Leonard Cohen and Paul Robeson. We hope also to gradually expand an international section covering well-known or 'forgotten' songs about political prisoners.

The last surviving Irish Volunteer, who fought on the Republican side against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, has received glowing, well-deserved tributes. Bob Doyle, an independent-spirited Irishman, died recently in London. The International Brigades...