Letters from the H-blocks: tiny notes from Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams found Some of the letters give insights into prisoners’ thinking as hunger strikes loomed
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Some of the letters from the H-blocks. Photograph: Julien Behal
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Tiny, handwritten letters composed by republican prisoners in the H-Blocks and Armagh women’s prison in the lead-up to the 1981 hunger strikes, have emerged in Co Kerry.
The communications have been described as “very important” and “of considerable historical value”. They will be handed over to Dr Ruan O’Donnell, a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Limerick, later this month.