Youth Against H-Block; Cork Event.

On the 13th of July at 8.00pm in An Spailpín Fánach, Cork Ógra Shinn Féin will host an evening of discussion around the hunger strikers of 1981 and other young prisoners in the H-Blocks and Armagh Jail at the time; as well as the role of young activists outside the prison who were to the fore in the Anti H-Block/Armagh campaign.



On display will be a Cork Anti H-Block exhibition documenting the campaign in Cork with a particular focus on the Cork North-Central constituency where Mairéad Farrell stood in the 1981 general election.

Discussion topics will include "A Background to the 1981 Hunger Strikes", "The Role of Young People in the H-Block Campaign" and "The Legacy of the Hunger Strikes", and as the event coincides with the 30th anniversary of the death of Volunteer Martin Hurson, a talk on the life and times of Martin will be presented by a member of the Martin Hurson Cumann (University College Cork).