Pilib O Rúnaí is a former blanketman and was a friend and comrade of Bobby Sands. In this film commissioned by the Bobby Sands Trust, Pilib talks about the men with whom he was in prison, his last days with Bobby and what he feels is the legacy of the 1981 hunger...

Pluto Press has just published a new edition of Bobby Sands: Nothing But An Unfinished Song, the best-selling biography by Denis O'Hearn that originally came out on the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike (see former edition on home page). For a limited time,...

In The Simplicity of His Defiance - Kieran Nugent. A name that makes you proud to be from West Belfast. A name that was on our lips for years. So familiar. Yet, go back. In truth, the Republican Movement in 1976 was very disorganised. One day a middle-aged man and...

There are many events taking place this week to commemorate the executions of the 1916 leaders and the 35th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands and the H-Block hunger strike of 1981 when ten men died over a seven month period. For updates please follow us.

Last week the South African writer David Beresford died. David had been the Guardian's Ireland correspondent in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was only one of two journalists who met Bobby Sands in prison. Beresford approached the Republican Movement after the...

The following events will be taking place in West Belfast from Thursday 28th April until Sunday 1st May. Thursday 28th April, 7.30pm The Devenish Complex The Untold Story - The National Hunger Strike Exhibition & Panel Discussion. Chaired by Alex Maskey. Speakers:...

Thirty-five years ago today, the great Bobby Sands started his hunger strike demanding political status for he and his comrades. His death came after sixty-six grueling days. Bobby Sands is a hero not just to Irish people but to freedom-loving peoples around the...

2016 is the 35th anniversary of the hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. There will be many commemorations this year, which is, of course, also the centenary of the Easter Rising in 1916, an event that inspired Irish republicans throughout the twentieth...

This year is the 34th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike which marked a historic watershed moment in Irish and republican history. The weekend of August 22nd August will see a series of events, including a lecture by Owen Carron in the Drogheda Arts Centre on...

Jan Freytag is a PhD student at Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany, and is currently doing research on the ‘Prison Protests 1976-1981’ during a period when the British government ended internment and opted for a policy of ‘criminalisation’. In this feature Jan looks at...