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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

Republican ex-prisoners say internment bonfires ‘not in our name’

9 August 2016

‘They are not about Irish republicanism and they are not about internment’ – Irish Republican Felons’ Association Free article

Loyalist leader John Boreland shot dead in Belfast

8 August 2016

Notorious ex-UDA figure gunned down late on Sunday night Free article

Thomas McElwee to be remembered in Bellaghy on Sunday

4 August 2016

‘The Hunger Strikers were all young men, leaders and an inspiration to generations of Irish republicans and revolutionary peoples all over the world’ – Ian Milne MLA Free article

Bar on anti-internment parade going to Belfast City Centre is ‘wrong’, says Sinn Féin MP

4 August 2016

Parades Commission confirms it has received a request to review its decision Free article

Reconciliation – an imperative, not an option

3 August 2016

If political unionism continues to fail to seize the opportunities, we may well end up talking to ourselves and the impetus necessary to transform our society will not be generated Free article

1916 hero Roger Casement remembered on 100th anniversary of execution

3 August 2016

Irish republicans and members of the Congolese Community in Ireland remember human rights and 1916 hero Roger Casement Free article

3rd August 1916 – Roger Casement

3 August 2016

Roger Casement was born at Doyle’s Cottage, Lawson Terrace, Sandycove, County Dublin, the son of Captain Roger Casement of the 3rd Dragoon Guards of the British Army and Anne Jephson from Mallow, County Cork Free article