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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 61

5 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

1916 medals tribute to Free State 'highly insulting' to vision of Rising leaders

4 February 2016

Souvenirs should be withdrawn and recast or boycotted, says Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh Free article

Election 2016 – Has Taoiseach already gone into hiding?

4 February 2016

Enda Kenny was the only leader of the main parties not to attend RTÉ's leaders' interview on Wednesday Free article

'Askapena 5' freed by Spanish National Court of ETA charges after 5 years in legal limbo

3 February 2016

One of the five is Gabi Basáñez, whose interview appeared in the current edition of An Phoblacht before today's news Free article

The B-Specials – Unionism’s stormtroopers

3 February 2016

For almost 50 years, the infamous B-Specials, a bigoted and sectarian loyalist police force, carried out a reign of terror against the nationalist population of the North Free article

Election 2016 – Choice is between Fine Gael or Sinn Féin to lead government

3 February 2016

Dáil dissolved and election date confirmed for 26 February Free article

UDA murderer was in the Ulster Defence Regiment, Ministry of Defence admits – 35 years later

3 February 2016

SAS targeted H-Blocks campaigner John Turnley for assassination, UDA killer told police Free article

Belfast City Council votes with Derry & Strabane to 'Save Moore Street' as Lynn Boylan MEP lobbies Council of Europe

2 February 2016

Local authorities rally to defend historic site of the last stand of the rebels in the 1916 Rising Free article

Brexit – A threat to Irish national interests and a social Europe

1 February 2016

The push for Brexit is the product of a growth in influence by narrow English nationalism linked to conservative, Tory ideological interests Free article