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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

UN report calls for action on Stormont House Agreement and inquiry into murder of Pat Finucane

24 July 2015

Mark Thompson says the findings require an immediate response from the British Government and the Secretary of State and urgent movement on all of the recommendations Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 33

24 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

Halting British austerity drive the focus of Sinn Féin strategy summit in Derry

23 July 2015

Economic experts at high-level ‘Strategic Planning Session’ Free article

Sinn Féin can deliver 'genuine left-republican Government' says Pearse Doherty

22 July 2015

Pearse Doherty calls for break with failed conservative politics of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour and outlines how Sinn Féin would scrap Irish Water Free article

Closet Fianna Fáiler's 'Morning Ireland' free-run to attack Sinn Féin

21 July 2015

RTÉ fails to disclose Lenihan links of 'economic expert' Free article

TTIP 'Trojan Horse' to undermine workers' rights and agriculture sector

21 July 2015

New free trade deal could jeopardise vulnerable Irish sectors such as agriculture and gives too much power to mulitnationals, conference hears. Free article

Michael Davitt – Pioneer of social justice

18 July 2015

Today, in July 1870, land agitator Michael Davitt was sentenced to 15 years for gun-running Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 32

17 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

Comment . . . Greece 2015 – Echoes of Ireland 1916

17 July 2015

“We seem to have lost; but we have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win.” – Pádraig Pearse Free article

Is a ‘Twelfth’ free from sectarianism possible?

16 July 2015

A real question arises as to whether and when what has come to be known as the Twelfth can and will become free from the actuality and connotations of sectarian and racist hatred, says Sinn Féin National Chairperson Declan Kearney Free article

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