Éirígí #ForANewRepublic activists projected a massive visual tribute to Volunteer Bobby Sands onto the gable end of a building in the docks area of Galway City to mark the start of #HungerStrike1981 last year.
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Today marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the start of the 1981 hunger strike. #HungerStrike1981
From his H-Block cell on Sunday the 1st of March 1981, Bobby Sands embarked on his epic protest. #BobbySands
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Support for those ten brave men who made the ultimate sacrifice during the 1981 Hunger Strike was not just confined to Ireland. #HungerStrike1981
Oppressed peoples from across the world gave their support and solidarity to The Ten - the Cuban people especially!
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On this day 44-years-ago, the 1981 hunger strike came to an effective end after 217 days. #HungerStrike1981
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The escape was planned during the two years after the momentous upheaval of the 1981 hunger strike and the deaths of The Ten, led by Bobby Sands. #HungerStrike1981
Every intricate detail of the escape plan was carefully put together by a tight knit group of Volunteers.
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The Rhythm of Time, a poem written by the great Bobby Sands - the first to die on the hunger strike of 1981. #HungerStrike1981
#RememberTheTen | #TheRhythmOfTime
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A closer look at the 1981 Hunger Striker mural, unveiled today by Éirígí activists in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin City. #HungerStrike1981
We Republicans never forget the sacrifices of those who went before us!
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📍 Garden of Remembrance, Dublin City
We Republicans never forget the sacrifices of those who went before us! #HungerStrike1981
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The funeral of INLA Volunteer Mickey Devine took place on this day 44-years-ago - he was the last of the hunger strikers to die. #HungerStrike1981 | #ForANewRepublic
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On this day 44-years-ago, Volunteer Thomas McElwee died after 62 days on hunger strike. #HungerStrike1981
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On this day in 1981, IRA Volunteer Kieran Doherty died after 73 days on hunger strike. #HungerStrike1981 | #KieranDoherty
Doherty, from Andersonstown in Belfast, was the eight hunger striker to die in the heroic struggle against British attempts to criminalise Republicanism.
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On this day in 1981, INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch died after 71 days on hunger strike. #HungerStrike1981 | #KevinLynch
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On the 44th anniversary of the death of 1981 Hunger Striker Martin Hurson, Éirígí Midlands activists laid a wreath at the memorial plaque dedicated to that brave volunteer in Moate, Co. Westmeath. #HungerStrike1981
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Joe McDonnell spent 61 gruelling days on hunger strike before he died just after dawn on the 8th of July, 1981 - he was the fifth hunger striker to die in the epic fight against the criminalisation of Republican struggle. #HungerStrike1981
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On this day 44-years-ago, Volunteers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara died on hunger strike. #HungerStrike1981
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Support for those ten brave men who made the ultimate sacrifice during the 1981 Hunger Strike was not just confined to Ireland. #HungerStrike1981
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The funeral of Volunteer Bobby Sands took place on this day 44-years-ago. #HungerStrike1981
Over 100,000 people formed the funeral cortège that made its way towards Milltown Cemetery in Belfast - remaining one of the largest attendances at a funeral in Irish history.
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The Black Flag Vigil took place yesterday, 5th May, to mark the 44th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands in the 1981 Hunger Strike. #HungerStrike1981
This was the 17th year in a row that Éirígí has organised a vigil on this day at this location.
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…a young man who sought inspiration from heroic Republican prisoners who died on hunger strike during previous phases of the struggle for Irish freedom. #HungerStrike1981 | #ForANewRepublic
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Galway City on the 1st of March - A huge image of Volunteer Bobby Sands was projected onto the gable end of a building in the docks area of Galway to mark the 44th anniversary of the beginning of his hunger strike on the 1st of March, 1981. #HungerStrike1981
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📍 O’Connell Bridge | #OccupationNoMore!
One of our Occupation No More stickers on O’Connell Bridge, with the annual Black Flag Vigil marking the 44th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on the 5th of May 1981 taking place in the background. #HungerStrike1981
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HAPPENING NOW - O'Connell Bridge, Dublin City this afternoon, marking the 44th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on the 5th of May 1981. #HungerStrike1981
We Republicans never forget the sacrifices of those who went before us!
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An Éirígí activist holds up one of Éirígí’s ’RISE UP’ stickers at Rue Bobby Sands, a street named after the hunger striker in Sant-Ervlan, Breizh. #BobbySands | #HungerStrike1981
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In 2021, activists in Madrid, Spain marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Volunteer #BobbySands in a very fitting manner - they renamed a street named after Margaret Thatcher to ‘Plaza Bobby Sands.’ #HungerStrike1981 | #ForANewRepublic
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Join the annual 1981 Hunger Strike Black Flag Vigil to mark the 44th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on the 5th May, 1981. #HungerStrike1981
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Join the annual 1981 Hunger Strike Black Flag Vigil to mark the 44th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on the 5th May, 1981. #HungerStrike1981
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A demonstrator at a march for the hunger strikers in Paris, 1981. #HungerStrike1981
The sign reads "Thatcher Murderer, She Killed Bobby Sands”
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