Éirígí To Host Dublin Black Flag Vigil For The 1981 Hunger Strikers
Join the annual 1981 Hunger Strike Black Flag Vigil to mark the 45th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on the 5th May, 1981.
This will be the eighteenth year in a row that republicans from across Dublin and beyond will come together to remember Bobby Sands and the other nine hunger strikers on O'Connell Bridge in the heart of Dublin City.
O'Connell Bridge was the scene of many protests and vigils during the 1970s and 1980s when Irish republican prisoners in Armagh's women's prison and the H-Blocks were in daily conflict with the British state's attempt to label them as criminal.
Over several torturous years the prisoners resisted in any way they could - first with 'the blanket protest' and later with the 'no wash protest'. And eventually with the first hunger strike of 1980 and then the 1981 hunger strike which resulted in the deaths of Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Patsy O’Hara, Raymond McCreesh, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee and Mickey Devine.
Join us at 6:30pm on Tuesday the 5th May on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin City. Black flags and images of the ten hunger strikers will be supplied by Éirígí - For A New Republic. Bígí Linn.