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
Fine Gael and Labour ‘big plan to halt rise of Sinn Féin’
14 July 2014
Ministers picked because of geography rather than priority or ability Free article
Video – Orange Order parade bands break rulings and clash with police
14 July 2014
Bandsmen insisted on playing music passing St Patrick’s Catholic Church Free article
Orange bands flout Parades Commission ruling on Twelfth
14 July 2014
‘Shankill Butcher’ berates photographer assaulted by Orangeman Free article
400+ at Sinn Féin farms meeting in Ballinalsoe
14 July 2014
Farm families and workers tell Sinn Féin TDs, MEPs and North’s Agriculture Minister of the pressures they’re under Free article
Limerick wants its 1916 flag back from Imperial War Museum
14 July 2014
This flag was captured by the British Army on 5 May 1916 following the Easter Rising in Dublin Free article
Vandalism of monument to three Scottish soldiers condemned by Sinn Féin
14 July 2014
‘I condemn unreservedly those behind this attack – it is wrong,’ says Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry McCabe Free article
So this is culture? A look at the Eleventh Night bonfires
11 July 2014
The bonfire — central to the celebration of Orange and Protestant culture — is billed as an occasion for family fun on the Eleventh Night . . . But is it? Free article
Video – Gerry Kelly MLA on the Pan Unionist Front and SoS Villiers
11 July 2014
Nothing should be done to help unionists undermine the Parades Commission. Free article
Video – Israeli blitz on Gaza condemned at Belfast Sinn Féin rally
11 July 2014
John Mallon and Phil McCullough, who were arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli regime as they brought much-needed aid to Gaza as part of the freedom convoys, joined the show of solidarity with the people of Palestine Free article
The Irish Volunteer - Volume 1 - Number 23
11 July 2014
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 22 newspaper, first published 4th July 1914. Free article
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