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Bobby Sands writing in An Phoblacht/Republican News

12 June 2026

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in September 1977. Free article

Belfast communities defy criminal killers

9 May 2015

People of south and east Belfast throng vigil for Gerard 'Jock' Davison Free article

EH Bildu – The Basque Way for Peace

8 May 2015

Euskal Herria Bildu has presented 'The Basque way for Peace', EH Bildu’s own proposal regarding the resolution of the consequences of the conflict. Free article

Westminster elections – Sinn Féin defends mandate to oppose austerity

8 May 2015

Unionist pact takes Fermanagh & South Tyrone in DUP/UUP link-up against progressive politics Free article

An tÓglach – The Irish Volunteer, 8th May 1915

8 May 2015

Series by Mícheál Mac Donncha chronicling the road to the 1916 Rising as seen through the pages of An tÓglach – the Irish Volunteer from 24 April 1915 to 22 April 1916 Free article

Fine Gael slur on unemployed 'straight out of Thatcher's playbook'

7 May 2015

Minister for Finance criticised for claiming some unemployed people are 'allergic to work' Free article

Greece's silent coup – not with tanks, with the banks

7 May 2015

Conservative forces fear that if SYRIZA succeeds in Greece then Podemos in Spain and Sinn Féin in Ireland will follow Free article

Remembering Bobby Sands – And voting Sinn Féin

6 May 2015

Margaret Thatcher got her answer from the voters of Fermanagh & South Tyrone in 1981 Free article

Family of republican shot dead by British Army take case to Europe

6 May 2015

As the family of an IRA Volunteer shot dead by the British Army goes to Europe for justice, An Phoblacht's Peadar Whelan reports that the Ulster Unionist Party's Tom Elliot believes that only those killed by the IRA in the conflict are “real victims”, revealing a mindset that shows him incapable of representing the electorate of Fermanagh & South Tyrone equally or fairly Free article

Wave of attacks on Derry republican leaders by opponents of Peace Process, says Martin McGuinness

6 May 2015

Those responsible have nothing to offer the people of Ireland, they have no strategies or political programmes, Gerry Adams says in challenge to 'dissidents' Free article

Bobby Sands, inspired by the vision of the Proclamation of Easter Week 1916

5 May 2015

Bobby Sands never doubted that the concept of freedom enshrined by the Proclamation of Easter 1916 would be achieved – West Belfast MP Paul Maskey Free article

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