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Bobby Sands writing in An Phoblacht/Republican News

12 June 2026

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in September 1977. Free article

10,000 throng Sinn Féin's O'Donovan Rossa re-enactment in Dublin City Centre

4 August 2015

Mainstream media illustrates reports of staid state event with images of huge turnout at republican re-enactment Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 34

31 July 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

Liverpool's Irish Volunteers and O'Donovan Rossa's funeral

31 July 2015

The Irish Volunteers in Liverpool were instructed not to allow O’Donovan Rossa’s body to touch English soil Free article

A united Ireland makes economic sense, says MEP Matt Carthy

30 July 2015

Simply maintaining the status quo in the form of two separate, competing economies on a tiny island will not deliver prosperity for the people of this island Free article

British Army in house searches 'unacceptable', Sinn Féin tells PSNI Chief Constable

30 July 2015

'The Good Friday Agreement and the promise of a new dispensation for policing was about making policing accountable to the community and did not include the British Army' Free article

Rail privatisation drive by European Commission should be stopped in its tracks, says Lynn Boylan MEP

30 July 2015

Privatisation in Britain has not lived up to promises Free article

The funeral of O’Donovan Rossa

30 July 2015

From An Phoblacht/Republican News, Thursday 11 August 2005 – By Shane Mac Thomáis Free article

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa

29 July 2015

An Phoblacht’s Shane Mac Thomáis looks back at the life of this remarkable Fenian (From An Phoblacht/Republican News, Thursday 4 August 2005) Free article

British Government needs to re-engage with Peace Process – Gerry Adams TD on 10th anniversary of historic statement by IRA leadership

28 July 2015

Marking the anniversary of the initiative of 28 July 2005 by the Irish Republican Army leadership formally ordering an end to its armed campaign Free article