"It was this spirit of resistance, this refusal to be subjugated, or to lie down, that Thatcher could never overcome." ⁣ SInn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald spoke at the National Hunger Strike Commemoration in Belfast on Sunday. ⁣ Republicans attended the annual event to remember those who died during the 1981 hunger strike. 🎥 Colm Lenaghan | Irish News

Bernadette McAliskey speaking at Hunger Strike Rally in 1981 | 1 Million Voices for Irish Unity

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https://www.sinnfeinbookshop.com/the-diary-of-bobby-sands-40th-anniversary-edition/ To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strikes, a special edition of ‘The Diary of Bobby Sands’ has been launched For the first seventeen days of his hunger strike, Bobby kept a secret diary of his innermost thoughts and views on the journey that lay ahead of him. | Sinn Féin Ireland

315K views · 7.6K reactions | 40 years ago today, Bobby Sands died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh after 66 days on hunger strike. He became the first of ten Irish republican prisoners to die on hunger strike in 1981. They defeated the British government's criminalisation policy – they were political prisoners. Four decades on, we remember the hunger strikers, the men of the H-Blocks and the women of Armagh, with pride. | Sinn Féin Ireland | Facebook