A sad and highly emotive article published in the paper “An Phoblacht” May 30th 1981. Patsy was a relentless socialist who gave his life fighting for both a socialist republic and also the demands of the Hunger Strikers. In the right side of the paper we have the last photographs that were taken of Patsy before his death. We can see that the British Govt. had let these men live in states of despair, pain and isolation in order to uphold and suppress growing resistance within Socialist Republican communities. Patsy O’Hara, his last words to his mother Peggy. “Please Mammy let the fight go on!” Peggy right up until her death in 2015, carried on the message of her son Patsy and has been a strong resilient voice of socialism in Ireland, even standing against Sinn Fein in the 2007 elections as a protest to their support for British devolution and support for the RUC/PSNI.
