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
Death of Tom Pilkington, County Sligo
30 November 2012
Tom battled Blueshirts as a boy and was a founder member of the Michael J Marren South Sligo Sinn Féin Cumann Free article
Peace & Neutrality Alliance AGM – Saturday 1 December
30 November 2012
Guest Speaker: Leading international anti-nuclear and anti-war campaigner Dr Kate Hudson, CND General Secretary Free article
One-day Palestinian film festival on Saturday 1 December in Dublin's Temple Bar
29 November 2012
Progressive Film Club and Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign event at New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2 Free article
Frankie Boyle puts 1981 H-Blocks Hunger Strikes movie in his top 5 films
29 November 2012
‘It’s like a visual poem almost and very moving’ Free article
UN vote for Palestine welcomed by Sinn Féin
29 November 2012
UN vote coincides with International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People – Palestine can now join a variety of international and UN agencies Free article
Leo and Maureen Wilson . . . ‘This is Your Republican Life’
28 November 2012
Gerry Adams comperes tribute to couple who have stayed true to republicanism Free article
Video: Tyson Fury weighs in behind Carál Ní Chuilín's boost for boxing
27 November 2012
Irish Heavyweight Boxing Champion Tyson Fury visits the Assembly to meet Sinn Féin Sports Minister (Culture, Arts & Leisure) Carál Ní Chuilín MLA – and Sinn Féin's own boxing legend, Alex Maskey MLA – to lend his support to the minister's investment in boxing strategy Free article
IRA Volunteer Pearse Jordan 20th anniversary commemoration
27 November 2012
THE 20th anniversary of the summary execution of IRA Volunteer Pearse Jordan was marked in west Belfast on Sunday 25 November, the exact date of his death, by a parade through the Upper Springfield and Ballymurphy areas where he lived. Free article
Photo Gallery – Pearse Jordan Memorial Lecture, west Belfast
27 November 2012
BARRISTER Karen Quinlivan delivered the Pearse Jordan Memorial Lecture on Saturday 24 November in St Aidan's school, west Belfast. Free article
Photo Gallery – Gaza solidarity by hundreds in Belfast
27 November 2012
HUNDREDS of people took to the streets of Belfast on Saturday 24 November in a show of solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza. Free article
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