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
Laois monument recognises republicans’ dedication
4 September 2013
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3 September 2013
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2 September 2013
Gerry Adams: “When I was writing ‘Hope and History’, which deals with the 1980s and 1990s and the birth and evolution of the Peace Process, I contacted Seamus and asked if he minded me quoting from his poem ‘The Cure at Troy’” Free article
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