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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

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 64

26 February 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

2016 elections – New historic milestones

25 February 2016

We do stand on the shoulders of giants Free article

Fianna Fáil confirm they will impose water charges if elected to Government

25 February 2016

Fianna Fáil's Environment Spokesperson Barry Cowen confirms Water Charges will be imposed by his party despite previous pledge to scrap them Free article

An Ghaeilge: An fíorcheist olltoghcháin í?

23 February 2016

Mar chuid dár sraith ‘Ról an Stáit agus Ról an Phobail’, sa bhlog seo, scríobhann an Comhairleoir Maria O’Kane, Cathaoirleach Choiste na Gaeilge Chomhairle Chontae na Mí, faoi chúrsaí Gaeilge san olltoghchán agus ina dhiaidh. Cuireann sí an cheist: ‘An Ghaeilge: An fíorcheist olltoghcháin í? Free article

General Election 2016 – 'Citizens face stark choice on polling day'

23 February 2016

Pearse Doherty says choice is between more of the same with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, or a genuine progressive alternative led by Sinn Féin Free article

Fine Gael TD suggests victims murdered by loyalists 'a result of your own actions'

22 February 2016

Regina Doherty has claimed that the actions of Sinn Féin were responsible for the deaths of people murdered by loyalist death squads Free article

Irish Republican Brotherhood recruiting inside the British Army

21 February 2016

It is estimated that 15,000 soldiers were recruited into the IRB in Dublin, Kildare and garrison towns in the midlands Free article

Remembering the 1981 Hunger Strike – Welcome morale boost

21 February 2016

The first march organised by the National H-Block/Armagh Committee in Belfast in the renewed campaign to achieve the prisoners’ five demands proved to be a welcome morale boost for all those attending – An Phoblacht/Republican News, 21 February 1981 Free article