Celebration of
Resistance Weekend, Derry
Friday 17th August 2001
12.00pm Opening of weekend of events in
Calgach Centre, Derry with exhibition dealing with the 1981
hungerstrike.
7.30pm Public Discussion entitled: From hunger
strike to Good Friday Agreement
Saturday 18th August 2001
12.00pm Launch of booklet entitled:
"Memories of 1981 - The story of the 1981 hunger strike as told
by relatives, friends and comrades of the prisoners"
2.00pm Video Showing "They burned them
alive!" detailing events in Turkish prisons in December 2000
when the state forces killed 26 prisoners.
3.00pm Public Discussion entitled:
"International Prisoner Solidarity"
Guests included representatives of AFAPP - Spain and
Turkish Solidarity Committees Ireland
5.00pm Close of 2 day hunger strike exhibition
Sunday 19th August 2001
2.30pm National hunger strike commemoration
assembled at Creggan Shops, Derry and Marched to National Hunger
Strike Memorial in City Cemetery for Rally
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Sunday 29th July 2001
Annual Kevin Lynch Commemoration, Dungiven, County
Derry
Also Unveiling of new monument to Kevin Lynch and his
nine comrades who died during the 1981 hungerstrike.
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Wednesday 23rd
May 2001
I.R.S.P. Protests
against former US president Bill Clinton in support of the
Death-Fast prisoners in Turkey's prisons
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Monday 21st
May 2001
Black Flag Vigil
In Memory of
Volunteer Patsy O'Hara and Volunteer Raymond McCreesh,
Hungerstrikers
Waterloo Place,
Derry, 3pm
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Sunday 20th
May 2001
20th Anniversary
Patsy O'Hara Commemoration
Assemble 2pm
Creggan Shops
March to National
Hungerstrike Monument
Bands and
Prominent Speakers
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Saturday 12
May
Black Flag Vigil
In Memory of
Volunteer Francis Hughes, Hungerstriker
Waterloo Place,
Derry, 3pm
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February 2001
William Street
Near Derry City
Centre
IRSP White Line
Protest
"For
Political Status and Against Criminalisation"
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Saturday 16th
December 2000
William Street
Near Derry City
Centre
IRSP White Line
Protest
"For
Political Status and Against Criminalisation"
IRSP members
staged a 30 minute protest on the roundabout that links William
Street and Rossville Street to highlight the ongoing plight of
Republican and Republican Socialist PoWs who are at this time being
denied the very rights that the ten hungerstrikers died to attain in
1981. These rights were signed away under the Good Friday Agreement.
Further actions
are planned to highlight this injustice.
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Sunday 20th
August 2000
Derry City
IRSP National
Hungerstrike Commemoration
Assemble Creggan
Gate, City Cemetery 2.00pm
March to
Republican Socialist Plot
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Sunday 6th
August 2000
Dungiven, County
Derry
INLA Volunteer
Kevin Lynch Commemoration
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