Colm Mistéil - Chairman
Deirdre Fennessy - Irish Freedom Committee, Chicago Cumman
Tj Ó Conchúir - Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

The Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee was founded in 2006 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike. In the spirit of Theobald Wolfe Tone, who sought to unite “Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter”; in acknowledgement of the leadership of the Easter 1916 Rising, which united disparate Republican forces against the might of Britain’s army; and most especially in the memory of the 1981 hunger strikers, who died united in protest inside the H-Blocks of Long Kesh; The Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee will do our part in unity to pay respectful homage to the legacy of ten brave men who sacrificed all for Ireland. We are a diverse group of Republicans from the Irish Freedom Committee, Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America, as well as independent Republicans. All involved are devoted to the pursuit of a United and Sovereign 32 County Socialist Irish Republic, free of British military and administrative rule; and to the support of the families of Irish Republican political prisoners.

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