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‘Sunday Times’ Corrects Bobby Sands’ Misquote
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...
Hunger Stike Began 28 Years Ago
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...
Leonard Cohen sings ‘Kevin Barry’
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.
Bob Doyle, Irish Revolutionary – Gerry Molumby
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...
Remembering Frank Stagg
Today, February 12th, is the thirty-third anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Frank Stagg from County Mayo. He died in Wakefield Prison, blind, weighing four stones after sixty-two days on hunger strike, his wife and mother at his bedside. Born in the village...
Pat Finucane Anniversary Events
A new mural was unveiled on the barracks site, Andersonstown, on Tuesday, 10th February, to murdered human rights lawyer Pat Finucane. This Thursday, 12th February, marks the 20th anniversary of his assassination by agents of the British state. Pat had been Bobby...
The Fatal Mistake of Ignoring the ‘Irish Model’
In a feature piece analysing the comparisons between the peace process in Ireland and President Obama’s initiative in the Middle East, and a call from Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams for talks with Hamas as the legitimate representatives of the Palestinians of Gaza,...
Seamus Heaney Disputed
The depiction of a meeting between poet and Nobel Literature Laureate Seamus Heaney and Danny Morrison prior to the 1981 hunger strike has been disputed by the former Sinn Fein Director of Publicity. Recently, a new book, ‘Stepping Stones – Interviews with Seamus...
Looking at the real politics of ‘Hunger’
The ‘Morning Star’ newspaper published a feature on last weekend’s meeting in London addressed by former IRA prisoner Seanna Walsh after a showing of the film ‘Hunger’. Here is the article in full. STEVE McQueen's film Hunger, which is about former IRA prisoner Bobby...
‘Hunger’ Discussed at London Meeting
Despite protests and vigils across London against the Israeli war on the Palestinian people drawing large numbers of activists, there was still a good turnout – 200 people - for last Saturday afternoon’s screening of ‘Hunger’, followed by a talk given by former IRA...
