tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97183542012-01-05T18:22:31.693Z<img src="http://img101.exs.cx/img101/954/saoirse8dg.jpg"> A collection of net resources about Bobby. Alternate mirror site located <a href="http://marcella32.livejournal.com"><u>here</u></a>.micheailinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9718354.post-15828731489876689112012-01-05T18:14:00.006Z2012-01-05T18:22:31.702Z

As many of you know, the release of documents under the 30 year rule has occurred, and 1981 was the year covered. This means that many, many government documents pertaining to the hunger strike are included. I have attempted to post as many as I could find onto the three locations of SAOIRSE32 as current news.Some of you may also know that the Blogsome location of SAOIRSE32 is going out of the

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Claims that the Sinn Fein president could have stopped the 1981 fast in July are vindicated by newly-released papers, says Carrie TwomeyCarrie TwomeyBelfast Telegraph20 December 2011The controversial claim that Gerry Adams and his committee controlling the 1981 hunger strike from outside the Maze prison refused a substantial offer from then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - an offer accepted by

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Suzanne BreenSunday World11 December 2011**Via Newshound An ex-Provo prisoner who watched his comrades die on hunger-strike has blasted the IRA leadership for their "needless deaths". Richard O'Rawe says key IRA leaders should "hang their heads in shame" for rejecting a secret British offer which could have saved six hunger-strikers' lives in the notorious H-Blocks. The West Belfast

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**I have posted this years-old tribute to Bobby by Seanna Walsh before and would like to do so again today. This day always fills me with sadness, and this is all I am going to say.Bobby Sands - 1954 - 1981An Phoblacht**From 9 May 2002Mo Chara Bobby Sands--Last Friday, 3 May, former republican POW SEANNA WALSH delivered the annual BOBBY SANDS MEMORIAL LECTURE in the fitting surrounds of the

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Bobby Sands in the Cages of Long KeshAn Phoblacht4 March 2011‘THE BIRTH of a republican: from a nationalist ghetto to the battlefield of H-Block’, by hunger-striker Bobby Sands, was first published anonymously in Republican News on December 16th 1978. It was reprinted in An Phoblacht/Republican News on April 4th 1981, after Bobby had been on hunger strike for one month.The smuggled-out article,

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Andersonstown NewsLurgan man Leo Green went without food for 53 days during the 1980 hunger strike. Currently working as part of Sinn Féin's Assembly support team at Stormont, he was arrested in 1977 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He spent over 17 years in prison. “Coming up to the 30th anniversary there's a natural focus on the hunger strike but the story of the prison struggle was about

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Andersonstown NewsThursday 19th of July 2010The Vice-President of the European Parliament, Roberta Angelilli MEP, is to launch a book about Bobby Sands today (Thursday) at the European Parliament Offices in Rome.Il Diario di Bobby Sands: Storia di un Ragazzo Irlandese is the translation by Italian journalist Silvia Calamati of a book first published in Ireland a few years ago by Denis O’Hearn and

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THE HUNGER STRIKE Was there a deal? By Allison MorrisIrish News22/10/2009Former republican hunger striker Bernard Fox says he is deeply distressed by allegations that a deal which could have ended the strike was vetoed in order to maximise electoral support for Sinn Fein.The west Belfast man, who spent a total of 22 years in prison, was on hunger strike for 32 days when the protest was

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THE HUNGER STRIKE Was there a deal?Irish News22/10/2009Richard O’Rawe – former republican prisoner, PRO of the 1981 hunger strikers and author of Blanketmen – responds to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams on claims a deal was available which would have saved the lives of six hunger strikersThere is now no room for doubting that the hunger strikers, by their sacrifice and courage, melted the iron

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Ruairí Ó Brádaigh InterviewBy Allison MorrisIrish News17/10/09STRATEGY: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh has dismissed suggestions by former republican prisoner Richard O’Rawe, inset, that some of the 1981 hunger strikers were allowed to die in the Maze Prison as part of a Sinn Fein strategy to gain electoral support Throughout the1981 republican Hunger Strike, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh reigned as president of Sinn

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By Allison MorrisIrish News17/10/09A FORMER Belfast councillor who represented the interests of INLA prisoners during the 1981 Hunger Strike has backed calls for an inquiry into controversial claims the protest was allowed to continue for political gain.Former INLA inmate Sean Flynn said he thought enough evidence had come to light to warrant further investigation into the deaths of 10

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Derry Journal13 Oct 2009The mother of a Derry man who died on hunger strike says she fully supports the INLA's move away from violence.Peggy O'Hara, whose son Patsy, an INLA volunteer, died on hunger strike in Long Kesh in 1981, says she is happy with the move which was announced at the weekend."I am happy with the announcement and happy that the political stance of the movement has not changed,"

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PlatformBy Gerry Adams Sinn Fein president, West Belfast MP, MLAIrish News12/10/09Twenty-eight years ago, 10 Irish republicans died over a seven-month period on hunger strike, after women in Armagh prison and men in the H-Blocks (and several men ‘on-the-blanket’ in Crumlin Road Jail) had endured five years of British government sanctioned brutality.The reason for their suffering was that in 1976

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Derry Journal06 October 2009Mural photo from CAINThe children of Derry hunger striker Micky Devine have renewed their call to find out the truth about the circumstances that led to their father's death in Long Kesh in 1981.Michael Og and Lousie Devine have called on leading Belfast republican, Laurence McKeown, to explain comments he made in a recent interview when he said there was "nothing new"

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THE HUNGER STRIKEIrish News29/09/2009THE go-between working with the republican leadership during the Hunger Strike has revealed that he was never given a written copy of the statement which the British were prepared to release to the hunger strikers.Brendan Duddy, who acted as go-between between Sinn Fein and the British government since the early 1970s, said information was always given by

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THE HUNGER STRIKEIrish News29/09/2009QUESTIONS: Gerard Hodgins, left, pictured with Danny Morrison (PICTURE: Seamus Loughran)THE blanket protests and Hunger Strikes are sacrosanct in republican history. The commitment and courage of the men and women who participated in those prison struggles can never be questioned.Richard’s [O’Rawe] assertion that the leadership blocked a deal on the Hunger

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Families of the strikers are divided over O’Rawe claimSeamus McKinneyIrish News28/09/2009The families of eight of the hunger strikers failed to reach agreement on the new claims when they met in June this year.A meeting to discuss the Richard O’Rawe claims and the recent controversy was addressed by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, the party’s former publicity officer Danny Morrison and Brendan ‘

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Was there a deal?By Allison MorrisIrish News29/09/09**NIO FOI documents (PDF) from www.longkesh.infoVETERAN reporter Ed Moloney has said that he warned Richard O’Rawe about an inevitable backlash from former republican associates if he went ahead and published his book.O’Rawe’s claims that the Sinn Fein leadership sabotaged a possible resolution to the protest in order to further the party’s

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By Seamus McKinneyIrish News28/09/09TONY O’Hara last saw his brother Patsy alive two days before the Derry man died on the 61st day of his hunger strike on May 21 1981.At the time O’Hara was an INLA prisoner at the Maze serving a sentence for possession of arms.He died on the same day as IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh from Camlough, Co Armagh.“For the entire duration of the 61 days I got to

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Roy GarlandThe Monday ColumnIrish News28/09/09I once attended an evangelical meeting where a “hymn” written by a hunger striker was occasionally sung.Thomas Ashe was a 1916 leader who died after force feeding went wrong in 1917.His “hymn” was an amended version of one of his poems written in Lewes Gaol in England. It included the following lines: “Let me carry your cross for Ireland, Lord: the

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THE HUNGER STRIKEIrish News28/09/09THROUGHOUT Irish history Britain attempted to legitimise its actions by criminalising those native forces who opposed them physically, or in conscience. At one time it was Catholicism which was penalised, later it was nationalism and republicanism.After 1969 the prison population here multiplied, not from an outbreak of criminality but due to the failure of

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By Allison MorrisIrish News28/09/09Left Kieran Doherty’s parents Alfie and Margaret with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. Kieran Doherty, known as ‘Big Doc’, was on hunger strike for 73 days before his death on August 2 1981, the longest of any of the 10 men who died. He was 25 years old.Elected as a TD to Cavan Monaghan in June 1981, for the last 16 days of his life members of the Doherty family

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Families of the strikers are divided over O’Rawe claimBy Seamus McKinneyIrish News28/09/09Top from left: Michael Devine’s children Michael Og and Louise, former blanketman Dixie Elliott, Patsy O’Hara’s mother Peggy O’Hara and the hunger striker’s brother Tony O’Hara, Willie Gallagher of the IRSP, Richard O’Rawe and former hunger striker Gerard Hodgins. (Photo: Margaret McLaughlin)MICHAEL Og

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THE HUNGER STRIKE Was there a deal?Irish News28/09/09Laurence McKeown is a former IRA prisoner who took part in the Hunger Strike. He joined the fast on June 29 1981 after the first four prisoners died. Following the deaths of six more hunger strikers his family authorised medical intervention to save his life on September 6, the 70th day of his hunger strike... WHEN Richard O’Rawe first made the

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THE HUNGER STRIKE: Was there a deal?Irish News28/09/09Former IRA prisoner Richard O’Rawe caused huge controversy in republican circles when in his 2005 book Blanketmen he claimed that the British government had been ready to offer a deal which could have ended the hunger Strike after four deaths...FUNERAL: An IRA guard of honour flanks the coffin of Bobby Sands, the first hunger striker to die in

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THE HUNGER STRIKEBy Hugh Logue of the Irish Commission for Justice and PeaceIrish News28/09/09The image of those eight hunger strikers for me has never dimmed. Clothed predominantly in the white attire of hospital, the weakest sitting at a table, water jugs and mugs in hand, the strongest seated on higher tables, or standing behind. CLOUD OVER HISTORY: As storm clouds pass by a black flag on

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Was there a deal?By Suzanne McGonagleIrish News28/09/09Rioters on the streets in Ardoyne, north Belfast on May 5 1981 after Bobby Sands became th first hunger striker to die (PICTURE: Brendan Murphy)THE explosive events of 1981 saw violence erupt on the streets of Northern Ireland on a scale not seen since the early 1970s.The year was regarded as a Troubles watershed with the Hunger Strike

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THE HUNGER STRIKEBy Seamus McKinneyIrish News28/09/09Between May 5 and August 20 1981 10 men died on hunger strike at the Maze prison in a protest which attracted worldwide media attention.On the surface the Hunger Strike, and its 1980 predecessor, was in pursuit of five demands by republican prisoners.However, it is accepted it was about much more than that. It was about a refusal by republican

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Irish News28/09/09THE LIVES of six of the 10 1981 hunger strikers could have been saved in a deal which was acceptable to the prisoners, according to former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.In an interview in today’s Irish News, the architect of the Anglo-Irish Agreement also reveals for the first time that the Irish government had a mole within the Maze prison.The then Fine Gael leader says he

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THE HUNGER STRIKEBy Seamus McKinneyIrish News28/09/09Dr Garrett FitzGerald is convinced that, if the IRA had allowed them, the 1981 hunger strikers would have accepted either of two deals on offer to them in the days and hours before Joe McDonnell became the fifth man to die.The former taoiseach bases this belief on, among other things, intelligence supplied to him by a heretofore-undisclosed

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I received notice from Peter Urban, in conjunction with the group Seven Stars Republican Socialist News, that the O'Hara family had used the Freedom of Information Act in order to have Patsy O'Hara's photos and records released to them. I thank Peter for sending them out to me for posting. I told him they make me sad, but he reminded me that, 'The one of Patsy in his teens was sad, but it was

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Last night I found out that a former online friend of mine had slipped away from this life without my knowing it. I canny begin to tell you the sadness this has settled around my shoulders. I didna even know he was gone. This is because, for me, he had left earlier, and I had had to realise that people come into our lives like shooting stars. Their brilliance and warmth stays but a short time as

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Letter to the EditorDerry Journal30 June 2009Sir,We, the families of hunger-strikers, Patsy O'Hara and Michael Devine, support the call by former hunger-striker, Gerard Hodkins, for an independent republican inquiry into the 1981 hunger-strike.We cannot understand why any republican would have anything to fear from such an inquiry, or why they would not support it.The Gulladuff meeting between

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Derry Journal30 June 2009Foyle Sinn Féin MLA has said she is "disgusted" by what she described as republicans exploiting the grief of the families of the hunger strikers to attack her party.Ms Anderson made her remarks during the annual Derry Volunteers Commemoration event in the City Cemetery on Sunday.A crowd of up to 1,000 local republicans took part in the march from the Creggan shops to the

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An Phoblacht25 June 2009THE families of the majority of the men who died during the 1981 Hunger Strike have rejected as “false” the claims being made about the fast and the deaths of six of the H-Block prisoners.The families are particularly incensed at the claims – raised by former H-Block prisoner Richard O’Rawe and repeated by the British media – that Margaret Thatcher’s government offered

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Derry Journal16 June 2009The families of two Derry hunger strikers are calling for an independent inquiry into the events of the 1981 prison protest during which ten republicans died.The families of INLA hunger strikers Patsy O'Hara and Michael Devine made the call after a meeting held in south Derry last week between Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and relatives of a number of the men who died

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By Seamus McKinneyIrish News13/06/2009The Sinn Fein leadership has organised a meeting with families of the 1981 hunger strikers to discuss recent controversy about the period.Families of the 10 men who died were notified this week about the meeting at Gulladuff in south Derry on Wednesday.It is understood Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and others connected to the 1981 protest will attend.The

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Today The Pensive Quill carries an article by guest writer, blanketman and former hunger striker Gerard Hodgins on the topic of the 1981 hunger strike By Gerard HodginsThe Pensive Quill6 June 2009In 1976 the British introduced the criminalisation policy which decreed that captured Republican volunteer soldiers would henceforth be treated as criminals, being forced to wear a criminal uniform and

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Slugger O'Toole13 June 09**Comments onsiteThis week in South Derry, bowing to pressure from recent revelations that have reduced aspects of the standard Provisional narrative of the 1981 hunger strike to self-serving propaganda, Gerry Adams and members of the 1981 PIRA sub-committee for the Hunger Strike will meet privately with members of hunger strikers’ families. This comes as a former hunger

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Brian Rowan Belfast TelegraphThursday, 4 June 2009The IRA jail leader during the 1981 hunger strike today said the British Government never had any intention of resolving the notorious prison dispute in which 10 men starved to death.Brendan ‘Bic’ McFarlane accused the then Thatcher Government of trying to resolve the prison protest “on their terms” while attempting to “wreck” the IRA in the

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By Jim GibneyIrish News07/05/09Two personalities from opposite ends of the political spectrum, who helped shape their respective worlds and are inextricably linked through decisions they took over 30 years ago, have anniversaries this week.Tuesday past marked the 28th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands MP. Bobby died on the 66th day of his hunger strike. During it he was

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1954 - 1981God bless you, Bobby

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Gemma BurnsNorth Belfast News1st of May 2009North Belfast republicans will take to the streets next week for a black flag vigil to mark the 28th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands.A vigil will be held at 5pm this Tuesday (5 May) at the corner of the New Lodge Road and Antrim Road to remember the MP and hunger striker. The Rathcoole man died in the early hours of 5 May 1981 after 66 days on

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BBC15 Feb 09A film about the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has dominated the Irish Film and Television Awards.Hunger took six awards at the ceremony in Dublin including best film, and best film actor for Michael Fassbender's portrayal of Bobby Sands.Sands, 27, died at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981.Fassbender went on a medically supervised diet to portray Sands, who refused

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BBC01 February 09Hunger, the dramatisation of the last days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, has taken the top prize at the London Evening Standard Film Awards.Artist Steve McQueen's movie took the best film honour at a London dinner.Oscar-tipped Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle and The Reader star Kate Winslet missed out on prizes.Michael Fassbender went on a medically monitored crash

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DONALD CLARKEIrish Times9 Jan 09AWARDS SEASON came to Dublin yesterday with the announcement of the nominations in 37 categories for the sixth annual Irish Film and Television Awards (Ifta).As Los Angeles steadied itself for Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, Áine Moriarty, chief executive of the Irish Film and Television Academy, and Amy Huberman, star of RTÉ's The Clinic and A Film With Me in It,

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GERRY MORIARTY, Northern EditorIrish Times22 Dec 2008A COMPLAINT HAS been made to the PSNI after the Minister for Education in the North praised IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands during a meeting with Belfast schoolchildren.Sinn Féin's Catríona Ruane spoke approvingly last week of Bobby Sands at a prize-giving ceremony at St Colm's High School in Twinbrook, on the outskirts of west Belfast.A

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BBC21 Dec 2008Education Minister Caitríona Ruane has been reported to the police for praising IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.Ms Ruane said she was not prepared to "preside over education apartheid" Ms Ruane was speaking at a prize-giving ceremony at St Colm's High School in Twinbrook last week.The complainant claimed Ms Ruane's remarks breached the law on glorifying terrorism.Police said a

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News Letter19 December 2008EDUCATION Minister Caitriona Ruane has lavished praise on Bobby Sands – to an audience of schoolchildren.Pupils at St Colm's High School, Twinbrook, were told they should be thankful that the hunger striker paved the way for a better future for them.Caitriona RuaneBut Ulster Unionist education spokesman Basil McCrea said it was "a matter of profound shame" that Ms Ruane

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Aine McEnteeBelfast MediaNorth Belfast Newswww.bobbysandstrust.comNorth Belfast assemblywoman Caral Ni Chuilin helped to re-launch the Bobby Sands Trust website which recently updated its contents to exhibit reams of information, photos and personal writings from the hunger strikers.The internet portal contains thousands of facts about Bobby Sands, the 27 year old Member of Parliament who went on

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Craig MathiesonThe Age.com.au10 November 2008Watch video trailerHunger, the debut feature by English visual artist Steve McQueen, is an intensely powerful film that never tries to overwhelm you. It is as unyielding as the men it documents - the Irish Republican Army members who undertook fatal hunger strikes in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in 1981 - but refuses to force a judgement or demand

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REVIEWED BY PEADAR WHELANAn Phoblacht23 Oct 2008Film Review: Hunger, Director: Steve McQueen, Starring: Michael FassbenderThe award winning film Hunger, about the last weeks in the life of Bobby Sands, had its premiere in Belfast last Thursday, 16 October.Unsurprisingly the film has become the focus of wide political debate, most particularly in the North where the anti-republican lobby has

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Derry Journal17 October 2008Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney attended the premiere of the new film 'Hunger' based on the 1981 Hunger Strike in Belfast last night.Speaking before watching the film, Mr McCartney, who advised director Steve McQueen, said; “I look forward to viewing ‘Hunger’ and I have no doubt that having previously spoken to Steve McQueen while he was making the film that his

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By Roisin McManusBelfast MediaAndersonstown News ThursdayAn iconic new mural of West Belfast hunger striker Bobby Sands is currently being exhibited in a city centre art gallery.The mural of the IRA volunteer and MP was painted by West Belfast artist Danny Devenny and is now being shown at the Golden Thread Gallery in Great Patrick Street.Click image for gallery noticeThe mural is part of an

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GERRY MORIARTY, Northern EditorIrish TimesFriday, 17 October 2008'Hunger' premiere: award-winning film recalls final weeks of Bobby SandsBELFAST WAS last night figuring how to come to cinematic terms with the 1981 hunger strikes. Being Belfast, the British and Irish premiere of the film Hunger about the last six weeks of the life of Bobby Sands generated controversy.The red carpet was rolled out

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BBC26 Sept 2008Provisional IRA men at the funeral of IRA hunger striker Bobby SandsThe 1981 election of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands as MP remains a sore point for Protestants in County Fermanagh, a new study has claimed.The Church of Ireland report interviewed Protestants living in the Clogher Diocese about the Troubles.It has recommended more be done to deal with the legacy of pain in the

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Ballymoney Times4 September 2008A REPUBLICAN group in north Antrim has slammed criticism of the sale of Bobby Sands tee-shirts at the Lammas Fair.Several people hit out at the sale of political items at the Fair saying the event had a proud reputation for attracting all sections of the community and they felt a 'neutral' atmosphere should be maintained.But in a statement to the Times, the North

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Towards a United IrelandBY DALE MOOREAn Phoblacht21 August 2008 The first National Hunger Strike commemoration to take place outside Belfast was attended by several thousand people from across the country in Derry City on Sunday, 17 August. In stark contrast to the wet weather that caused severe flooding across the country, the day remained dry and warm with the sun even making an appearance

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An Phoblacht19 June 2008HUNGER, the film dealing with the 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike has won the Sydney Film Festival’s first international competition.Director, Steve McQueen has added the $60,000 prize to the Camera d’Or award for best first-time director at the Cannes Film Festival last month. A jury headed by the Australian director Gillian Armstrong chose Hunger as winner of the 12-film

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BBC26 May 2008Artist Steve McQueen's debut film Hunger - about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' final days - has won the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.The award, given out each year to first-time film-makers, was given to McQueen by US actor Dennis Hopper."The film is about people in a situation of extreme pressure and what people do and what we do," McQueen told the festival's

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ukpress.google.com25 May 2008A film about an IRA hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison has won an international award.Hunger, which focuses on life at the Maze Prison and the hunger protest in 1981, received the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.Steve McQueen with the Camera D'or received for 'Hunger'It is directed by London-born Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen and stars Irish actor

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Derry Journal19 May 2008The IRSP held its annual hunger strike commemoration in Derry on Sunday amid a large scale security operation mounted by the PSNI.Around 300 people, including relatives of dead INLA volunteers, marched from the Rosemount factory to the republican socialist monument in the City Cemetery.Two PSNI landrovers drove at the front of the parade while four more followed behind

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Independent.ieBy Arifa AkbarFriday May 16 2008A controversial film documenting the final weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has been defended by its makers at the Cannes Film Festival as a useful insight into the mindset of suicide bombers.British director Steve McQueen poses during a photocall for his film 'Hunger' at the 61st Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France Credit:

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Film about the IRA hunger striker fuels argument over Sinn Fein 'sell-out'By David McKittrickIndependent.co.uklSunday, 18 May 2008Bobby Sands, the subject of the controversial new film Hunger, shown at Cannes, is hardly a hero to everyone in Ireland, but to republicans he is a potent symbol of self-sacrifice. While republican factions continue to debate whether he would have supported the present

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Turner Prize-winning artist focuses on the hunger striker's last six weeksVanessa Thorpe and Henry McDonaldSunday May 11, 2008The ObserverAn uncompromising new film that examines the last six weeks in the life of Maze prison hunger striker Bobby Sands has drawn criticism from those who see it is an untimely celebration of the martyrdom of a terrorist.The 96-minute film, Hunger, which has been

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An Phoblacht8 May 2008On Monday, 5 May, the 27th anniversary of the death of republican Hunger Striker Bobby Sands, over 200 people attended a white line picket in memory of the 1981 Hunger Strike leader and former MP for Fermanagh/South Tyrone in his home area of Twinbrook in Belfast. The demonstration on the Stewartstown Road was organised by Colin Sinn Féin and coincided with the launch of a

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Thousands line the street to bid ‘The Dark’ a fond farewellBy Ciarán BarnesIrelandclick22 February 2008More than 2,000 mourners lined the streets of West Belfast on Tuesday for the funeral of IRA hunger striker Brendan Hughes.The 59-year-old’s coffin, which was draped in a tricolour and had black gloves and a beret on top, was carried by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.The former IRA leader was

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THE BLANKETMartin Galvin • 24 February 2008Radio Free Eireann, New York’s influential Irish radio program, begins each week with a song that shouts the words “unrepentant Fenian”. Once the description “unrepentant” Fenian or “unrepentant” Republican puzzled me. Repentance denotes regret and a contrite turning away from some misdeed or wrongdoing. Fenianism or Republicanism I took to be a

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By Suzanne Breen, Sunday TribuneFebruary 24, 2008**Via NewshoundFrom his flat high in Divis Tower on the Falls Road, Brendan Hughes looked down on the city he bombed. He pointed to a car hire firm, owned by a wealthy unionist businessman in the 1970s, and one of the IRA's prime commercial targets. "We bombed that place so many times, yet he kept re-opening it. I respected him for not giving up

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Irish NewsWednesday 20/02/08Tributes have been paid to Margaret Hughes, mother of Co Derry hunger striker Francis Hughes, who died yesterday after a two-year illness.Margaret Hughes nee McElwee (94) died at home comforted by her family.She is survived by her husband Joe, who is aged 99."On behalf of the Sinn Fein leadership I would like to extend my deepest condolences to Maggie's husband Joe and

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Irish NewsBy Rebecca Black and Allison MorrisWednesday 20/02/08Thousands of mourners from all over Ireland and beyond travelled to Belfast yesterday for the funeral of veteran republican Brendan Hughes (59) who died on Saturday after a short illness.LAST RESPECTS: Sinn Fein councillor Fra McCann and party president Gerry Adams help carry the coffin of veteran republican Brendan Hughes from St

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Belfast TelegraphThursday 21, February 2008Working in Belfast during forging of the Good Friday agreement and the tense implementation years that followed, making sense of the peace process often necessitated talking to former paramilitaries on both sides.So when Brendan Hughes, a revered IRA icon to many Irish-Americans, went public with criticisms of Sinn Fein's peace strategy in early 2000, I

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:::u.tv:::Brendan `The Dark` Hughes, once one of Belfast`s most feared IRA gunmen, died at the weekend after a short illness aged 59.Crowds swelled to more than 2,000 as his coffin - draped in the Irish Tricolour and topped with black beret and gloves, was carried from his home in west Belfast to St Peter`s Catholic Cathedral in the Divis Street area of the city.Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams

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The HeraldFormer Provisional IRA commander;Born October 1948;Died February 16, 2008.BRENDAN Hughes, who has died aged 59, was a a one-time commander with the Provisional Irish Republican Army who broke with former comrades when they pursued peace in Northern Ireland.Hughes spent his final years criticising Sinn Fein leaders for accepting Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord and said that, while

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By Victoria O'HaraTuesday 19, February 2008 Belfast TelegraphThousands of mourners gathered today to attend the funeral of veteran republican Brendan Hughes.Mr Hughes (59), a former hunger striker, died last Saturday after becoming critically ill.Sinn Fein party president Gerry Adams was amongst about 1,500 mourners who packed the church and lined the streets to pay their last respects to the

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Belfast TelegraphMonday 18, February 2008 Brendan Hughes was an IRA fighter who for much of his life pitted himself against the British presence in Northern Ireland but latterly became a bitter critic of the republican movement's political direction. Once a close colleague of the Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, he played a pivotal role first in the fierce Belfast IRA gun-battles of the 1970s and

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Irish Times17 February 2008Many articles posted on Brendan Hughes might be identical or nearly so, but I will include the major sources so in the future it can be seen who published what. A former IRA hunger striker who fell out with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams over the peace process has died.Brendan 'The Dark' Hughes, once one of Belfast's most feared IRA gunmen, died after a short illness aged

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IRA commander in Belfast and leader of the H-Block 'dirty protests' of the 1970sAnne McHardyThe GuardianThe Guardian,Tuesday February 19 2008 In the 1970s, Brendan Hughes, who has died aged 59, shared a cubicle inside Cage 11 of the Long Kesh internment camp - the Maze prison - in Northern Ireland with Gerry Adams, now the president of Sinn Fein. Hughes had been influential in the formation of

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Please check out the list of archived material THE BLANKET has posted.Brendan Hughes - Archive Material

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G21 - IRISH EYES **See also Decomissioned Provos thrown on scrap heapBrendan Hughes was one of a small group of Republicans in the Lower Falls (Belfast) who split from the IRA in 1970 to form what was later to be known as the Provisional IRA. In the sometimes violent split within the movement at that time one of the first victims was his cousin, Charlie Hughes, who was shot dead in a gun battle

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BBCThe former hunger striker and IRA commander Brendan Hughes has died in hospital.The 59-year-old Belfast man was taken into hospital last week after becoming critically ill. His family said he passed away on Saturday night.He was the "officer commanding" IRA prisoners in the Maze jail and ordered a dirty protest and later led the first republican hunger strike in 1980. Brendan HughesIn recent

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Last Thursday I received a comment on BOBBY SANDS from someone named 'gigas,' giving me a link to a Greek icon from the 2004 Olympics in Athens. I wish I could email my thanks to this comment poster, but I hope the person knows I appreciate it. :)The ten Irish martyrs (... - 1981)'Those who wear their blankets as shroud and fasted in the name of freedom, the ten Irish martyrs of H-Block, that

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GuardianCharlotte Higgins in CannesWednesday May 16, 2007Turner-prizewinning artist Steve McQueen is to make his first feature film - an account of the last six weeks of IRA hungerstriker Bobby Sands, who died in 1981 in Northern Ireland's Maze prison.The film, Hunger, will have "international contemporary resonance", said McQueen. "The body as site of political warfare is becoming a more

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Independent.co.ukBy Arifa Akbar in CannesPublished: 16 May 2007He was a towering figure of the Republican movement who had one of the most controversial lives - and deaths - of Northern Ireland's long and troubled history.Now, Bobby Sands, the hunger striker who starved himself to death 25 days after being elected as a member of Parliament, is to be the subject of a Channel 4 film made by the

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*This is the text of a speech made in 2005 to commemorate the death Of Bobby Sands. It is now 26 years since Bobby died whilst on hunger strike in Long Kesh prison.Bobby SandsPhoto AlbumA chairde,Today we remember Volunteer Bobby Sands who died on hunger strike for the sake of his comrades and for the cause of the Irish Republic on May 5th 1981. What better place to remember one of the greatest

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IrelandclickBy Evan Short21 August 2006A mock H-Block cell was constructed in Andersonstown Sunday to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of hunger striker Mickey Divine, the final volunteer to die resisting criminalisation.Hailing from Derry, Mickey Devine died after spending 60 days on hunger strike.He was the third INLA member to perish in the 1981 campaign that saw ten republican prisoners

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Daily IrelandHundreds of republicans in Derry commemorate 25th anniversary of INLA hunger striker’s death By Eamonn Houston 21/08/2006 As his final days on the 1981 hunger strike loomed, 27-year-old Michael Devine asked for his two children, Michael Jr and Louise, to be brought to the hospital wing of Long Kesh prison.It was to be an emotional visit.By that stage the ravages of Devine’s fast

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An PhoblachtMichael Devine - heroic revolutionary soldierOn the death of INLA Volunteer Michael Devine at 12 minutes to eight on Thursday, 20 August 1981, his brother-in-law Frankie McCauley said, "One thinks,'Ten men, how many more have to die? We have ours now over us. Next week it will be big Laurence's people waiting for the same thing. Then the Devlins after that and another boy will go on

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1981 Irish HungerstrikersMICKY DEVINEDied August 20th, 1981A typical Derry ladTWENTY-seven-year-old Micky Devine, from the Creggan in Derry city, was the third INLA Volunteer to join the H-Block hunger strike to the death.Micky Devine took over as O/C of the INLA blanket men in March when the then O/C, Patsy O'Hara, joined the hunger strike but he retained this leadership post when he joined the

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Fallen Comrades of the IRSM**Posted to group last year by Danielle Ni Dhighe. Click on above link for more photosFallen Comrades of the IRSM - Michael DevineDied on Hunger Strike on 20 August 1981Michael James Devine was born on 26th May 1954 in Springtown, just outside of Derry city. He grew up in the Creggan area of Derry, where he was raised by his sister Margaret and her husband after both

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An Phoblacht10 August 2006A republican woman remembersJennifer McCann was a comrade of Bobby Sands and a protesting prisoner in Armagh Jail. She remains a republican activist and here talks to ELLA O'DWYER about her memories of the 1981 Hunger Strike.Jennifer McCann, from the Twinbrook area of West Belfast was arrested on 5 March 1981, five days after Bobby Sands started his fast to the death.

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An Phoblacht**This net article was obviously missing pieces when they printed it. Sorry10 August 2006"From the day Martin went to jail my father never said he was wrong or he was right, which was surprising really. He just went along with the rest of us. He never passed any remarks, never criticised.Religion was very important to him. He would have had all the regalia, books, medals and the like.

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An PhoblachtThe death of Thomas McElweeThomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the 10th 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.Thomas was a cousin of another Hunger Striker, Francis Hughes, both coming from Bellaghy. They had been boyhood friends, both going on to join the IRA. On 10 August

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An Phoblacht"I'm very, very proud of my brother"Thomas McElwee's brother Joe talks to An Phoblacht's ELLA O'DYWER about his recollections of Thomas as a brother and a republican and the impact of the 1981 Hunger Strike on a younger generation. Thomas McElwee from Bellaghy, County Derry was the sixth oldest in a family of eight girls and four boys. Cars were the young Thomas's passion and he

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An PhoblachtA man of steelGerard Lynch talks to Ella O'Dywer about his brother, Hunger Striker and INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch. Kevin Lynch was the youngest of a family of eight, five boys and three girls. Gerard was the second youngest. They were not just brothers, but friends. Four of the Lynch brothers worked in England in the building trade and while there they got involved locally in Gaelic

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Daily IrelandFormer comrade pays tribute to Tom McElwee from staunch republican area of Bellaghy, Co Derry who died after 62 days on hunger strike 25 years ago By Connla Young 08/08/2006 The sight of eight sisters carrying the remains of their brother has become one of the most haunting and powerful images captured during the closing days of the 1981 hunger strike. The enduring image was

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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Thomas McElwee on hunger strike. Thomas McElweeNoraidWhen you see the official photograph of Thomas McElwee on hunger strike posters, a 3/4 profile, he looks like a choir boy. When you look into his left eye -- you can’t help but -- there’s mischief. A twinkle that black and white photography and death don’t dim. He lost his other eye in a

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**Posted by Peter UrbanBy Ray CollinsKevin Lynch died August 1st 1981 after 71 days on hunger strike.'A loyal determined Republican with a great love of life.' Click to view - photo from CAINOn Saturday afternoon April 18th, 1981, I visited INLA political prisoner Kevin Lynch in the H Blocks of Long Kesh prison. Despite the circumstances of my visit; there was extreme tension within and without

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INAKieran Doherty - Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 40The Dohertys"The Dohertys lived on a hill in a nationalist section of West Belfast called Andersonstown. Kieran was the third of six children. His mother Margaret was a Protestant who converted to Catholicism after she married Alfie Doherty. The family was Irish republican through and through. Alfie managed the local Republican Club that helped

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Please visit the sites listed for more information and photosclick thumbnail to go to Fallen Comrades of the IRSMclick on photo to go to Irish Hunger Strike 1981 WebsiteLarkspirit.comKevin Lynch - Died August 1st, 1981 Click to view - photo from CAINA loyal, determined republican with a great love of life "THE EIGHTH republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on May 23rd,

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