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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

British Army logs altered about schoolboy's killing in 1972

13 April 2016

Francis Rowntree (11) was fatally injured by a rubber bullet that had been deliberately doctored with a torch battery to render it more lethal Free article

Rights of workers key to creation of better society, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness tells ICTU conference

12 April 2016

ICTU conference addresses fair employment and the rights of workers which are central to building a fair, inclusive society and a strong economy, Sinn Féin figure tells trade unionists Free article

Legacy Gender Integration Group to brief US Congress on Friday

12 April 2016

Delegation meeting key policy advisors in Washington to discuss the need to find appropriate and responsive mechanisms to deal with the past Free article

When Wolfe Tone and King Edward died for Ireland . . . kind of

12 April 2016

The Irish forces under siege in the GPO found some novel ways of keeping their spirits up Free article

Ireland's anti-fascist fighters remembered in Spain

11 April 2016

Commemoration in Córdoba remembers volunteers of the International Brigades who fought against Franco Free article

9 April 1981 – Famous Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election a key turning point in the struggle

9 April 2016

Noel Maguire’s gesture was not only magnanimous – it was a pivotal moment which shaped the future conduct of the republican struggle in a dramatic and unexpected way at the time Free article

North of Ireland could lose at least €3.5billion from Brexit, says Martina Anderson MEP

9 April 2016

Referendum to leave theEuropean Union takes place on Thursday 23 June Free article

Upper Bann – Can Sinn Féin take two?

8 April 2016

Two seats are the target for Sinn Féin in this former unionist stronghold Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 70

8 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