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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

Andersonstown 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration sets high standard

29 March 2016

Pageantry and drama at Belfast Brigade 1st Battalion Memorial Garden Free article

Irish state Easter Rising commemoration ' nothing in common' with ideals of 1916

29 March 2016

Galway Alliance Against War slams Shannon Airport use for 'foreign imperial wars' Free article

28 March 1981 – Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election dramatic spotlight for H-Block campaign

28 March 2016

'Deliberate policy of censorship in British Government circles and lack of press coverage of the Hunger Strike in this country' – An Phoblacht/Republican News, 28 March 1981 Free article

Donegal and west Tyrone remember Drumboe Martyrs and 1916

28 March 2016

Pearse Doherty pays tribute to local republicans down through the years of struggle Free article

Incredible display of Derry City's republicanism for 1916 centenary

28 March 2016

More than 5,000 take part in one of the biggest parades ever held in the city Free article

Birth of a republican – Bobby Sands, IRA Volunteer and Member of Parliament

28 March 2016

Remembering 1981 – From a nationalist ghetto to the battlefield of H-Block Free article

Irish and US trade union leaders unveil new statue to James Connolly in Belfast

26 March 2016

Statue is part of the Slí na Gaelatachta route which highlights the history of west Belfast and significant figures from the area Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 68

25 March 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

Police attack on Tullamore Volunteers

25 March 2016

The Irish Volunteer, 25 March 1916. Bulmer Hobson interview on Irish Volunteer officers at Tullamore attacked by a crowd associated with the British Army Free article