Memoirs of an Irish Republican Prisoner. By Siobhan Hughes MALACHY Trainor, or Muffles Trainor, was only a name amidst the ...

I was privileged to be elected as MP by the people of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the General Election last year. As a proud Sinn ...

Belfast City Council has confirmed it is probing a statue unveiled on Sunday for IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, saying it has ... the INLA died during the prison protest.

Seven IRA prisoners and three from the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) died during the prison strike. Members of the pubic attend the unveiling of the Bobby Sands statue (Brian Lawless/PA ...

A statue has been unveiled in memory of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in Belfast ... died during the prison strike. Their aim was to force then UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s government ...

He was convicted in 1976 and sentenced to 14 years in prison. “It is deeply troubling to see public representatives organising an event to unveil a statue honouring Bobby Sands,” she added.

The historical strike, led by IRA officer Bobby Sands at Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, challenged the British government’s decision to treat paramilitary prisoners as criminals instead of ...

Just watch it, already. Before Shame, Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender burst onto the scene with this gut-wrenching tale of Irish republican Bobby Sands, who led the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike at ...

In one scene, a prison staff member is summoned to one ... Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), dir. Steve McQueen When demands for special category status are not met, the men ...