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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 47

30 October 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

Right2Change platform provides real alternative to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael

27 October 2015

Broad left-wing platform aims to provide real chance for alternative government not including Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael Free article

Sinn Féin and the IRA Army Council

26 October 2015

Disgruntled securocrats, failing politicians and partisan journalists present no evidence to support their outlandish claims – they are trading in lies Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 46

23 October 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

This new round of talks has to be successful – real negotiations need to take place

22 October 2015

There is a widespread conviction that some elements within political unionism are not seriously committed to power sharing – the reputation of the political institutions and belief in the capacity of the political process to deliver has been damaged Free article