| Description | This file contains several flyers for rallies and events held in support of Irish Republican prisoners, including those who died on hunger strike in 1981. Most of these events were supported by the Indian Workers Association, though organised by other groups. The file includes:
/1 flyers for a showing of the banned film 'To Die for Ireland' at Shaheed Udham Singh Centre, Handsworth, Birmingham; Zebedees Cafe, Alum Rock Road, Birmingham; Sparkhill Social and Cultural Centre, Stratford Road, Birmingham. The showing of the film was organised by the Troops Out Movement as part of the Action against the Broadcasting Ban on Sinn Fein campaign, October 1986
/2 flyers for a march and rally held in Birmingham 9 May 1987, organised by the Irish Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee
/3 flyer for a march in support of Irish Republican prisoners held in British prisons, and their families. The rally was held in Wakefield, Yorkshire and was organised by the Irish Republican POW Campaign Committee and the British Withdrawal Committee, Glasgow
/4 undated flyer for events held during the visit of Sinn Fein councillors Lily Fitzsimons and Caoim o Caolain to Birmingham, organised by Labour Committee on Ireland and supported by the Indian Workers Association, Troops Out Movement, Women and Ireland and Labour Women for Ireland. Events consisted of a public meeting at Shaheed Udham Singh Centre, Soho Road, Birmingham which Caoin o Caolain attended, with speakers from the Indian Workers Association, Labour Committee on Ireland, Handsworth Defence Campaign and Troops Out Movement, and a 'Women's Afternoon' with Lily Fitzsimons at the Centre for the Unemployed, Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham. |