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Remembering 1981: Four men dead as crisis escalates • Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara Thursday, 21 May 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2.30am. Later that evening Patsy O’Hara died.  A Mass had been celebrated at Raymond McCreesh’s bedside on Wednesday evening by his brother Fr Brian McCreesh. He was semi-conscious and appeared to show some sign of recognition but died just a few hours later. His remains were returned to his beloved Camlough in South Armagh for the funeral the following Saturday.  Leaving the family home in St M...

Remembering Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands who died on this day Remembering Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands who died on this day On this day, Bobby Sands died while campaigning for political prisoner status for IRA prisoners at Long Kesh. Frances Mulraney Facebook Comments On this day, May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands died after mounting a historic 66-day hunger strike while imprisoned in Long Kesh, Northern Ireland. Bobby Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast, a majority loyalist area. His family had succeeded in living reasonably peacefully in ...

» Special Correspondent MAY 5th 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’ campaign for the restoration of political status. Bobby was the first of ten hunger strikers to give their lives in 1981 in the centuries-old struggle against Britain’s attempted criminalisation of the struggle for freedom in its first and nearest colony. He was elected on April 9th 1981 in the by-election to fill the...

'It doesn't diminish': The legacy of the 1981 hunger strikes, 40 years on This Monday will mark 40 years since Bobby Sands went on hunger strike. By Sean Murray Saturday 27 Feb 2021, 12:05 AM Feb 27th 2021, 12:05 AM 31,842 Views 40 Comments ON PAGE 9 of The Irish Times of Friday 27 February 1981, a headline read: “H-Block fast generates little pressure.” The report outlined how a “low-key atmosphere prevail[ed]” in the run-up to the...

Ronnie Whelan’s homecoming during the tumultuous summer of 1981 The young, former Home Farm midfielder was part of an eventful Dublin stay. By Kevin Brannigan Monday 28 Dec 2020, 8:00 AM Dec 28th 2020, 8:00 AM 20,871 Views 7 Comments Ronnie Whelan in full flow for Liverpool in 1983. Image: EMPICS Sport Image: EMPICS Sport WITH A HEADLINE screaming ‘HUNGER STRIKER NO. 10 DIES’, the Evening Herald hit the capital’s news stands just i...