Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike
The mother of Bobby Sands MP died this day in 2018. She was 95. She was born in the Markets area of south Belfast in 1922 and her father died when she was just 12 years old. The young Rosaleen Kelly was set to emigrate to New Zealand, with a job lined up at the […]
Ashe took a major part in the 1916 Easter Rising
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike
During this, the year of the 40th anniversary of the H Block hunger strikes, attention has once again focused in a small way on the unhealthy relationship between Sinn Féin and the Communist dictatorship in Cuba. There has been a persistent attempt to link the Irish hunger strikes with the Cuban regime, as epitomised in […]
On 23 May,1923, the Irish Civil War officially ended, but many republican prisoners were kept in prison by the newly-established Free-State government, with some 12,000 men and women in prison in camps such as the Curragh and Gormanstown, and in Mountjoy and Cork Jail. Conditions were generally poor for the prisoners, and Senator W.B. Yeats […]
ON THIS DAY: 25 SEPTEMBER 1917: Thomas Ashe died from force feeding during a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison Thomas Patrick Ashe, Tomás Pádraig Ághas was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers which he joined in November 1913. […]
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike started by Bobby Sands in early March. As a young man Bloody Sunday had a deep effect on him, he was there with this brother-in-law who remembered Mickey rhetorically ask “How can you sit back and watch while your own Derrymen are shot […]
The convicted rapist told the High Court via video link on Friday that he did not want to die, but was “put in an impossible situation.”
Brehon Law, the pre-Conquest legal code in Gaelic Ireland, provided for the right to troscud where an individual of lower social class could fast against a member of the elite who they perceived to have had acted unjustly towards them. Gaelic Ireland may not have been the egalitarian Eden depicted by James Connolly and others […]