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Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

19 May 2026

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls. Free article

1916 & 1981 Comórtha i Ráth Chairn

7 October 2016

Tá moladh tugtha ag an Teachta Dála Peadar Tóibín don chumann lán-Ghaeilge de chuid Shinn Féin i Ráth Chairn. Free article

‘Pat Beág’ honoured on eve of anniversary of conclusion of 1981 Hunger Strike

6 October 2016

Plaque unveiled to the man known affectionately as ‘The 11th Hunger Striker’ Free article

‘Young people in the North voted to Remain and our voices will be heard’

6 October 2016

Youth delegation from North’s student unions, youthwork groups and Sinn Féin Republican Youth bring their case to European Parliament Free article

Martin McGuinness to challenge Theresa May directly on her immunity for British armed forces

6 October 2016

Theresa May jeered at the Conservative Party conference at ‘activist left-wing human rights lawyers’ who ‘harangue and harass’ Britain’s armed forces Free article

Belfast – Brexit High Court hearing concludes Thursday

5 October 2016

Statements at the annual conference by the British Tory Party – including plans to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017 – make the Belfast case all the more important Free article

On This Day, 1968 – RUC attack Civil Rights march in Duke Street, Derry

5 October 2016

Using gerrymandered electoral boundaries and a corrupt voting system which allowed wealthier citizens to have multiple votes in local elections, the unionists maintained a majority of members on the council in a city with a nationalist majority Free article