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Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

19 May 2026

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls. Free article

British state policy: denounced in the court of international opinion - Declan Kearney

23 August 2021

In his latest blog, Declan Kearney reflects on the historic journey of Naomh Eanna GAC and rejects attempts to put British state forces who murdered Irish citizens above law. Free article

Roger Casement remembered in London

16 August 2021

The 105th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement was marked in London in early August, when Francie Molloy, MP for Mid Ulster, addressed a commemoration outside Pentonville Prison in Islington. Free article

Latest phase of British brinkmanship over the Protocol is deeply corrosive - Declan Kearney

13 August 2021

In his latest blog, Declan Kearney brands the latest phase of British brinkmanship over the Protocol 'deeply corrosive'. Free article

Thomas McElwee – Died on 8 August 1981 after 62 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh

8 August 2021

Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the tenth man to join the 1981 Hunger Strike. From Bellaghy in south Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 after a premature bomb explosion in which he lost an eye. Free article

This is 2021, not Mississippi in the 1960s: It's time to stand up against sectarianism

4 August 2021

In this article, Sinn Féin MLA and National Chairperson Declan Kearney argues that it is time to take a stand against sectarianism, discrimination and division and to promote a better future for all. Free article

50th anniversary of Internment without trial 9 August 1971

3 August 2021

50 years ago on 9 August 1971 the British government in London, at the request of the Unionist government in Stormont, imposed internment without trial in the Six Counties, pouring petrol on the flames of conflict. We re-publish here the story of Internment as told by the late historian Shane Mac Thomáis. Free article

Dawn Foster – A tribute

16 July 2021

Joe Dwyer remembers journalist Dawn Foster who died suddenly. Free article

Centenary of the Truce of July 1921

9 July 2021

In July 1921 Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Ireland Nevil Maready led the British Army delegation into Dublin’s Mansion House to meet the representatives of the Irish Republican Army to arrange a Truce between the two forces. Free article

Time for Truth Campaigners demonstrate against British government amnesty plans

7 July 2021

There is growing opposition to the British government’s planned amnesty legislation for British army veterans of the Northern conflict to be brought before Westminster next month Free article