Echoes from H-Blocks of Long Kesh
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play.No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something. Bobby Sands(1954-1981)
Bobbys Sands and his ten comrades were true heroes. These young men were willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice rather than be branded criminals. Criminals don’t starve themselves to death for their beliefs. Anyone with an ounce of sense and not blinded by hatred can see this. Ta ar la anois.
The hunger strike of 1981 was one of, if not the most influential periods in the IRA’s long campaign to remove Britains’ role from irish politics. It not only thwarted Britain’s plans to criminalise the IRA prisoners in the H-Blocks, but concentrated world wide media attention on the war in Ireland, paving the way for Sinn Fein’s entrance into the political arena and the electoral successes that followed.
