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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

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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