26.6.04
RANDOM RAMBLINGS FROM A REPUBLICAN
**Click on the above link, scroll all the way to the bottom and start reading articles in order from bottom to top (blog style). Seán has published this moving series from AN PHOBLACHT:
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF DEATH
"Keep on marching, don't give up"
AP/RN
30 May 1981
This tribute to the detemination and spirit of republican resistance of the four dead H-Block hunger-strikers - IRA Volunteers Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, and Raymond McCreesh, and INLA Volunteer Patsy O'Hara - is written by Belfast republican Jim Gibney, who had the demanding, but privileged task of regularly visiting the former three in the H-Block prison hospital during their fast to the death for political prisoner status.
**Included is also the start of "Earlier history of hungerstriking as a tool for bringing about justice."
**Click on the above link, scroll all the way to the bottom and start reading articles in order from bottom to top (blog style). Seán has published this moving series from AN PHOBLACHT:
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF DEATH
"Keep on marching, don't give up"
AP/RN
30 May 1981
This tribute to the detemination and spirit of republican resistance of the four dead H-Block hunger-strikers - IRA Volunteers Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, and Raymond McCreesh, and INLA Volunteer Patsy O'Hara - is written by Belfast republican Jim Gibney, who had the demanding, but privileged task of regularly visiting the former three in the H-Block prison hospital during their fast to the death for political prisoner status.
**Included is also the start of "Earlier history of hungerstriking as a tool for bringing about justice."
