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JFK, Nixon, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump — ahead of Joe Biden’s arrival next week, RAY RYAN looks back at some highlights of previous visits to Ireland of US presidents

The Yesteryears series continues this week with an edition from January 26, 1968: Detectives kept an all night watch on a hotel in Kilkenny as 130 republicans f...

H-Block letters: Finder clarifies background to their discovery Richard Behal ‘regrets’ inference that communications were being ‘dumped’ by party about 3 hours ago Some of the letters from the H-blocks. Photograph: Julien Behal Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   Letters and poetry composed by H-Block hunger-striker Bobby Sands and other republican prisoners including the late Mairead Farrell,...

Unpublished Bobby Sands poem among hundreds of items in new collection Former Sinn Féin activist is donating republican prisoners’ letters and poems to UL lecturer about 3 hours ago An unpublished poem written by republican hunger striker Bobby Sands has emerged. Photograph: PA Wire   The following is an unpublished poem written by republican hunger striker Bobby Sands,while imprisoned in the Maze prison (also known as the H-Blocks or Long Kesh) in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It is amo...