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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

'Europe’s moment of truth,' says SYRIZA in appeal for acts of international solidarity

20 May 2015

SYRIZA appeals for acts of social and political solidarity from rallies and awareness campaigns across Europe to initiatives in local, regional and national parliaments and personal or collective statements of support Free article

Ballymurphy Massacre families protest Prince Charles's visit

19 May 2015

Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey joins Ballymurphy families in their protest to show Sinn Féin's ongoing support for their long campaign for truth and justice Free article

Meeting with Prince Charles 'significant symbolic and practical step forward in process of healing and reconciliation' – Gerry Adams TD

19 May 2015

'There is now a peaceful way to end partition and the Union. All who want a united Ireland have a duty to embrace this and to make friends with our neighbours' Free article

Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikers honoured by Dublin City

19 May 2015

Plaque unveiled on Dublin's Henry Street recalls epic three-year strike by Dunnes Stores workers which changed Irish Government policy to apartheid South Africa and won the praise of Mandela, who invited the strikers to democratic South Africa Free article

By-election a three-horse race between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin

18 May 2015

Sinn Féin's Kathleen Funchion in strong challenge to Establishment parties Free article

The funeral of Francis Hughes

16 May 2015

The harassment of Francis Hughes in life (one of the reasons why he joined the IRA) continued even with his death and the hijacking of his body by the RUC Free article

U2's worldwide concerts echo unresolved Dublin/Monaghan bombings

15 May 2015

Bombings on 17 May 1974 – believed to have been carried out by the UVF working with British Intelligence – killed 34, the greatest loss of life on a single day of the conflict Free article

'Recognise Palestine' call on anniversary of Zionist expulsion of 700,000 to create state of Israel

15 May 2015

'Nakba' – 'Catastrophe' in Arabic – is the name for the mass expulsion of 700,00 Palestinians from their homes and land by Zionists to make way for the creation of the state of Israel Free article

Joe McKenny RIP: 'I'd do it all again'

15 May 2015

Republicans bid farewell to inspirational lifelong republican and former IRA Volunteer Joe McKenny Free article

An tÓglach – The Irish Volunteer, 15th May 1915

15 May 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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