The brother of a republican prisoner who died on hunger strike has opened up about the bizarre events surrounding the commandeering of his brother’s body by the government en route to his funeral.

On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker is still regarded as a hero of republicanism, says Peter Geoghegan.

Relations between Ireland and the US could be strained in the 1970s, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

The death on hunger strike of Frank Stagg caused a major crisis for the then government, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

I WOULD request readers to light a candle in memory of men who measured up to the mantle of 1916.