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Almost 40 years ago to the day, a small of republican sympathizers set an Irish castle alight to highlight the IRA hunger strikes at Long Kesh Prison in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
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BY FRA HUGHES
‘THEY will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal,’ Bobby Sands.
The 1980 Hunger Strike led by Brendan Hughes comprised of seven Republican male prisoners at Her Majesty’s Cellular Prison, the Maze, also known as Long Kesh Prison Camp and three female Republican prisoners at Armagh Women’s Prison ended in December 1980 after 53 days.
An agreement was reached between the protesting prisoners, the prison authorities and by extension the British Government ending the Hunger Strike. The prisoners demanding the reinstatement of Special Category Status were Republican volunteers jailed for opposing politically and militarily the British occupation of Ireland were treated as POWs, Prisoners of War.
I met and talked with you Joe Carolan, about 5 years ago, before I had me heart attack.
We discussed a rogue security company that had been breaking NZ labour laws…we went together to a memorial service for a fellow guard who was murdered in Henderson,… well I recall that, It was there that I was beckoned over by Helen Kelley , because as a guard, I was naturally circumspect and preferred to remain in the background. Yet she was warm and friendly. And that’s how I remembered her. With some discomfort, I moved to the front lines on her beckoning.