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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

Remembering 1981 – Time is running out

18 April 2016

From An Phoblacht/Republican News, 18 April 1981 Free article

Our ‘exiled children in America’ mark 1916 centenary

15 April 2016

Monaghan Councillor Seán Conlon on multi-city tour meeting Irish America communities Free article

Nearly 20 years after Good Friday Agreement, political ex-prisoners still suffer discrimination, says MEP

15 April 2016

Despite the United Nations outlining that their process of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration must be integrated into the entire peace process of post-conflict societies, this was never carried out in Ireland Free article

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can't have it both ways – 'Sinn Féin will talk to those who will talk to us,' says TD

15 April 2016

Why are Sinn Féin not in, ask Mícheál and Enda – as they both rule SF out! Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 71

15 April 2016

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