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
Time For An Irish Unity Referendum - Mark Guilfoyle
21 March 2021
Writing in An Phoblacht, Friends of Sinn Féin USA President Mark Guilfoyle said it's time a for a referendum on Irish Unity. Free article
An Ghaelainn i nGéibheann
19 March 2021
San alt seo, déanann Oisín Ó Síocháin plé ar an gcaoi ar fhoghlaim na fir phluide an Ghaeilge, cén fáth, agus na ceachtanna atá ann dúinne sa lá atá inniu ann. Free article
Centenary of IRA victory at Crossbarry
18 March 2021
While Tom Barry and the IRA’s West Cork Flying Column are best known for the Kilmichael ambush in November 1920, the Column’s success at the battle of Crossbarry in March 1921 was at least as important, as the IRA outwitted and outfought a British force more than ten times its size. Free article
Sectarian politics must not be allowed to prevent positive change - Declan Kearney
16 March 2021
Writing in his latest Declan Kearney reflects on the need to tackle sectarianism and the launch of a new Sinn Féin document titled 'Inclusion and Reconciliation in a New Ireland'. Free article
March memories
16 March 2021
First published in March 2006, reposted to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike, Jim Gibney recalls the events leading up to that fateful anniversary. Free article
From 14 March 1981 – Fearless fighter Francis Hughes joins Hunger Strike
16 March 2021
“Most wanted man in the North” – RUC Chief Constable Kenneth Newman Free article
Six IRA Volunteers executed in Mountjoy Jail 100 years ago
12 March 2021
100 years ago the British regime executed six IRA Volunteers in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin. They were hanged on the morning of 14 March as tens of thousands of people, including their families, gathered outside the prison and as hundreds of thousands of workers staged a half-day general strike in protest. Free article
Acknowledgement, Remembering & the Centenary of Partition - Declan Kearney
11 March 2021
Writing in his latest blog, Declan Kearney looks ahead at 2021 Free article
Ambush at Selton Hill
10 March 2021
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Selton Hill ambush - a significant engagement in the Tan War and a tragic chapter in the story of Co. Leitrim and the struggle for Irish freedom.
On Friday, 11th March 1921, the IRA’s Leitrim No. 2 Flying Column was ambushed by British forces at Selton Hill, which lies on the road between Mohill and Ballinamore.
Six officers of the... Free article
Good Friday Agreement threats and British Government bad faith
5 March 2021
Peadar Whelan considers the implications the withdrawal of support for the Good Friday Agreement by the Loyalist Communities Council, as the British Government unilaterally acted to continue Irish Sea border grace periods Free article
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