Irish unity
Republican sections in Ireland observe 42nd anniversary of 1981 hunger strikes
10 Irish republican prisoners including 27-year-old Bobby Sands starved to death in 1981 at the HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland while on a hunger strike to protest the revoking of their status as political prisoners
On anniversary of Easter Rising, calls for Irish unity are strengthened
During Easter week in April 1916, Irish militant republican forces started an uprising against the British colonialists in Dublin, marking a new era in the Irish freedom struggle against British imperialism