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They continue to inspire (Free article)
14 August 2008
This time 27 years ago the prison fast of hunger striker Michael Devine was drawing to a close. He died on 20 August 1981, the last of the ten H-Block martyrs to give his life in the epic struggle to break the British government's strategy of criminalizing Irish republican prisoners.
Mála Poist (Free article)
14 August 2008
Cuireann An Phoblacht fáilte roimh litreacha ónár léitheoirí. Scríobh i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla, 200 focal ar a méid. Déantar giorrú ar litreachta más gá. Cuir do litir chuig [email protected] An Phoblacht welcomes readers' letters. Write in Irish or English, 200 words maximum. Letters may be edited for brevity. Send your letters to…
Debbie Coyle to fight Enniskillen by-election (Free article)
14 August 2008
AT a packed selection convention in the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen, 46-year old Debbie Coyle was nominated to fight the local government by-election forced by the refusal of Ulster Unionists to allow the DUP a co-option after the death of Nigel Dodds's father.
Who's up for the Mourne Mountain Challenge? (Free article)
14 August 2008
Everest climber Terence Banjo Bannon from Newry is organising a 26-mile hike over the Mourne Mountains, County Down for 4 October this year to raise funds for the O'Donovan Rossa Heritage and Cultural Society. Participants will climb in teams of four walking over 12 mountain peaks with panoramic views of some of Ireland's finest scenery. It will…
Ballymurphy Massacre mural unveiled (Free article)
14 August 2008
The Ballymurphy Massacre Group, made up of relatives of those killed by British Paratroopers in the days that followed the introduction of internment in August 197
Seán Crowe to take South Dublin County Council seat (Free article)
14 August 2008
SINN FÉIN will be proposing the co-option of Seán Crowe on to South Dublin County Council following the decision by Councillor Mark Daly not to contest the next local election. Mark says that although he is standing down from the council he will remain an active member of Sinn Féin.
The Mary Nelis Column (Free article)
14 August 2008
IT WAS to break down the wall of silence around the H-Blocks and Armagh Jail that ordinary women, from a generation literally tied to the kitchen sinks, suddenly found themselves in the forefront of a campaign to defend the rights of their children and their community labelled by the British Government as criminal and subversive.
OPINION : A Signpost towards a modern Ireland (Free article)
14 August 2008
RESPONDING to some of the issues raised by Declan Kearney ('A signpost towards modern Ireland', An Phoblacht, 31 July) MÍCHEÁL Mac DONNCHA, in a personal contribution, addresses the way forward in the 26 Counties and nationally.
Homeless mothers threaten to squat in Stormont (Free article)
14 August 2008
Forty years after a Catholic family squatted in a house in Caledon to highlight sectarian discrimination in the allocation of public housing, two Belfast mothers are threatening to squat in Stormont's Long Gallery.
Remembering the Past: Twenty-two hunger strikers (Free article)
14 August 2008
THIS WEEKEND, people gather in Derry to commemorate the Irish republican prisoners who died on hunger strike. Foremost in their minds will be the ten who died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh between May and August 1981 but they will be paying tribute to all 22 republicans who followed to death the agonising path of the prison protest fast.
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