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...

Today saw the burial in Derry of Peggy O’Hara, veteran republican and mother of INLA hunger striker Patsy O’Hara who died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh on May 21st 1981 after 61 days. Peggy, who was 88-years-of-age, had campaigned valiantly on behalf of imprisoned...

Thirty four years ago, in the early hours of this morning, 5th May, Bobby Sands died on hunger strike after sixty-six days without food. There is not a day that passes when we don't remember Bobby, Frankie, Raymond, Patsy, Joe, Martin, Kevin, Kieran, Thomas and...

This Tuesday is the 34th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands. Many events, some private, some public, will be held in nationalist areas to commemorate Bobby Sands and the sacrifices of his comrades, Francie, Raymond, Patsy, Joe, Martin, Kevin,...

Jim Gibney, who proposed the idea of standing Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, was at last Sunday’s hunger strike march in Fermanagh and in this feature he recalls the year of 1981: The car journey on Sunday to Derrylin to commemorate the...