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.
Mark Rumley / Special to the Medford Transcript
Our country today, indeed our world, is filled with deafening shouts. Shouts from those who do not seek any more than what others have but stand in refusal to accept less.
Their voices say “my life is sacred, do not take it”; “that empty seat at the table is mine, it’s time that I take my rightful place”. Their voices say “do more than hear me…listen to me… join with me…let us find freedom.”
Invoking the memory and spirit of those whose lives were stolen, the voices shout “Say her name…say his name” as a call for human dignity, human sanctity and freedom.
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