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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 killings in Derry, Belfast and Armagh in the spotlight

12 November 2015

Unionists unite to block Alliance/Sinn Féin motion seeking truth about Ballymurphy Massacre Free article

'Those who died in WW1 were not heroes but victims,' say Veterans for Peace

10 November 2015

Irish, US and British veterans hold 'White Poppy' commemoration for all victims of war in Dublin Free article

1916 Rising was 'tyranny, rape and murder', says Orange Order at Dublin Poppy Day ceremony

9 November 2015

Dublin and Wicklow Orange Order causes storm with remarks about 1916 heroes in Poppy Day event praising British troops for putting putting down rebellion Free article

Fine Gael landlord TD to sell his 10 properties due to rent hike freeze

9 November 2015

A Fine Gael TD is unhappy that he will be unable to hike rents on his ten properties more than once every two years Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 48

6 November 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

Fine Gael's landlord TDs and senators oppose rent certainty

4 November 2015

Government in disarray as Fine Gael block Labour Party Environment Minister's plans for Rent Certainty Free article

Irish Government undermining Peace Process to halt growth of Sinn Féin

4 November 2015

Gerry Adams hits out at Fine Gael and Labour for playing second fiddle to British Government Free article

Fine Gael's Brian Hayes is big on hypocrisy, but short on facts

2 November 2015

Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan responds to attacks on Sinn Féin and the Left by Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes in the Sunday Independent Free article

The 2nd Convention of the Irish Volunteers

31 October 2015

Report from The Irish Volunteer, 6th November, 1915 on the Second Convention of the Irish Volunteers, held in the Abbey Theatre on Sunday, 31st October 1915 Free article

Opportunities for strategic advances should be embraced, not squandered

30 October 2015

IN A PIECE of political context-setting for the next Dáil general election, Taoiseach Enda Kenny recently told a European audience there had been a bloodless coup in Ireland and that the Central Bank Governor had said troops would be deployed around banks to justify his Coalition’s acquiescence with the Troika’s austerity programme. Free article

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