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 death of 1916 rebel Thomas Kent
18 September 2015
Thomas Kent was re-interred on Friday after 99 years of lying buried within prison walls Free article
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 41
18 September 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
Gerry Adams hits back at Tánaiste claims of 'Sinn Féin hijacking 1916'
18 September 2015
Sinn Féin says Labour Party has nothing in common with patriots of 1916 Free article
Should President Higgins not give Kent oration?
17 September 2015
The re-interment of Thomas Kent, one of the executed 1916 leaders, should be a major national event. Yet it seems strangely muted Free article
British Ambassador joins Gerry Adams in Dublin to launch Sinn Féin reconciliation initiative
17 September 2015
'For all of us with an interest in promoting peace and reconciliation across these islands, 'Uncomfortable Conversations' should be required reading' – British Ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott Free article
The death of Terence Wheelock – '10 years on and still no justice'
16 September 2015
10 years on from death of Terence Wheelock in Store St Garda station, his family are still looking for answers Free article
EXCLUSIVE – Bobby Storey after his arrest, still totally committed to Peace Process
13 September 2015
Unionists have to come out of their regressive, retrograde mindsets and embrace equality and democracy. They have to recognise and accept the democratic mandates given to all elected representatives under the Good Friday Agreement. Free article
'Northern political crisis threatens the primacy of democratic politics'
13 September 2015
Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney's full address to the Desmond Greaves School in Dublin opening session, “The Disunited United Kingdom”, 11 September Free article
Ian Paisley had no doubts about Sinn Féin's commitment to peace and democratic process, says Martin McGuinness
11 September 2015
On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Féin's chief negotiator says there has to be a return of his spirit of generosity to achieve a solution to the Stormont crisis Free article
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 40
11 September 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
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