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Bobby Sands Trust - Martin Hurson The Troops Out Movement is based in England and campaigns for British Withdrawal from Ireland read more >> Anniversary of the Death of Bobby Sands 5.5.2012 On May 5th, 1981 Bobby Sands died in Long Kesh after 66 days of hungerstrike for political status. He was the first of ten Irish Republican prisoners whose lifes were taken during this prison struggle. Shortly before his death he was elected member of the British Parliament in Fermanagh/South Tyrone. See also the Bobby Sands Memorial lecture of 2006: read more >> Remember Mickey Devine 20.8.2011 | Today since 1pm across Belfast at white line vigils republicans will be remembering with pride Micky Devine. He was the last of 10 prisoners to die on Hunger Strike campaigning for recognition as political prisoners. REMEMBER FRANCIS HUGHES 12.5.2011 | Troops Out Movement Francis died on 12th May in 1981 after 59 days on Hunger Strike Aged 25. He was the 2nd of 10 prisoners to die on Hunger Strike campaigning for recognition as political prisoners. Analysis: Thirty years on, Bobby Sands's stature has only grown 5.5.2011 | Danny Morrison (for the Guardian) On this day in 1981, a poet, revolutionary and people's MP died. Those hunger strikes energised Irish republicanism I last saw Bobby Sands alive in December 1980. He had long greasy hair and a matted beard as a result of the no-wash prisoners' protest. He had spent a third of his 27 years behind bars. At the end of the visit I was banned from the prison. I next saw him in his coffin, after his death exactly 30 years ago, before 100,000 people gathered for his funeral in Belfast. By then he'd spearheaded the hunger strike campaign for political status for IRA prisoners – and in the process gained massive international recognition after being elected an MP. read more >> 30. Anniversaries of the Hunger Strikes of 1981: Launch of the Hungerstrike Exhibition 1.3.2011 | Linenhall Library, Belfast Belfast, North of Ireland, 1. March 2011: Martin McGuiness, Sinn Féin Deputy First Minister in the Regional Government launched the exhibition. Ten Irish Republican hunger strikers died in this protest against an inhuman prison regime and for political status. Bobby Sands startet the hunger strikes on March 1st, 2011. The exhibition will be shown throughout Ireland. 30. Anniversary of the hunger strike of 1981 ..... 30ú Comóradh - 1980 hunger strike West Belfast Sinn Féin, 15 October, 2010 The 30th anniversary of the start of the 1980 hunger strike by republican prisoners in Long Kesh and Armagh women's jail who were protesting for political status is to be marked by republicans in Belfast on Wednesday October 27. In west Belfast, white-line pickets will be held at the top of the Whiterock, the Andersontown Leisure Centre and Poleglass roundabout at 5.30pm. read more >> Annual Bobby Sands lecture in Belfast: Ubuntu 5.5.2006 | Robert McBride (ANC) Veteran ANC member, Robert McBride, made a special trip to Belfast to give the annual Bobby Sands lecture on Friday, May 5. Born in Durban in 1963, Robert McBride became famous in South Africa during apartheid as being a leading member of the ANC military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and spent time on Death Row, before the fall of the regime. He took part in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is now Chief of Police in Johannesburg. Hundreds gathered to listen to the speech and gave Robert McBride a standing ovation. Robert McBride: "It’s very difficult to write a speech about such a momentous moment in the history of a people. There’s a quotation in Zulu of a saying we have in South Africa which we use to guide our lives: 'Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu' read more >> Former Hunger Striker Laurence McKeown's story 4.5.2006 | Ella O'Dwyer, An Phoblacht Around this time, young Protestants with whom Laurence grew up were joining the Ulster Defence Regiment. "At about 15 or 16, myself and my mates would be stopped by these same recruits who in, the reality of rural Antrim, were neighbours. read more >> And 25 years later ... 5.5.2006 | Andersonstown News Is it really 25 years since the dread news arrived that Bobby Sands had died? Is it really 25 years since that awful cycle of death and dying that ended up in the death of 10 young men inside Long Kesh and the streets outside the camp in turmoil. read more >> Remember them with pride, work for their ideals 4.5.2006 | An Phoblacht "The death of Bobby Sands reverberated around the 32 Counties and throughout the world. The brutal reality of British rule in the Six Counties was starkly exposed. Nationalists across the North reacted in sadness and in fury. While the political establishment in Dublin sat in shameful silence, thousands of ordinary people in the 26 Counties stopped work, young people walked out of schools, many businesses closed, tens of thousands took to the streets. Dublin city centre came to a standstill." read more >> THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF FREEDOM 4.5.2006 | An Phoblacht Bobby Sands was born in 1954 in Rathcoole, a predominantly loyalist district of north Belfast. His twenty-seventh birthday fell on the ninth day of his sixty-six-day hunger strike. His sisters Marcella, one year younger, and Bernadette, were born in April 1955 and November 1958, respectively. All three lived their early years at Abbots Cross in the Newtownabbey area of north Belfast. A second son, John, now nineteen, was born to their parents John and Rosaleen, now both aged 57, in June 1962. read more >> |
Video "National Hunger Strike Rally" 1981 hunger strikers 31. anniversary Dungiven, County Derry 5. August 2012. For a bigger display frame see our multimedia section: read more >>>> Video "Unbowed Unbroken" Duration: 1 hr 22 min Produced: Autumn 2006 Language: Englisch Irish Republican eyewitnesses give their accounts of one of the most remarkable prison protests in history read more >> |