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PRESSURED TO ACCEPT THE TREATY OF SURRENDER.

ON THIS DATE (31ST MARCH) 47 YEARS AGO : IRA POW IN ENGLISH JAIL JOINS THE HUNGER-STRIKE. Michael Gaughan (pictured), the eleventh Irish republican to die on hunger strike, was four months away from celebrating his 25th birthday. Immortalised in … Continue reading

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HOSPITAL ASSASSINATION, 1976.

ON THIS DATE (28TH OCTOBER) 44 YEARS AGO : IRISH REPUBLICAN LEADER ASSASSINATED BY PRO-BRITISH DEATH SQUAD. “We must take no steps backward, our steps must be onward, for if we don’t, the martyrs that died for you, for me, … Continue reading

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