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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

French elections: Corsican nationalists take power for first time

14 December 2015

Historic regional election result sees coalition of Corsican nationalists take control on Meditterranean island for the first time Free article

Burning of the Curragh

14 December 2015

Five internees were shot by soldiers, one fatally – his inquest was adjourned, never to be resumed Free article

American Commission of Inquiry into Black & Tan terror, 1920

12 December 2015

One of the first witnesses requested to attend was Fr Michael Griffin of Gurteen, County Galway – but the following day they received word that he had been murdered by the Black & Tans Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 53

11 December 2015

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

‘Fair Recovery’ agenda should be common ground across Ireland and Britain

10 December 2015

A positive axis against austerity, spearheaded by the regional executives of Scotland, Wales and the North of Ireland – supported by the British Labour Party, the TUCs in Britain, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Right2Change, and other civic stakeholders – would be a game-changer Free article