The McCreesh/McCabe Sinn Féin cumann erected a plaque on St Patrick's Day in the village of Mullaghbawn, South Armagh, dedicated to the memory of the ten young men who died on hunger strike in the H Blocks in 1981 and also to Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan.
The unveiling ceremony was attended and supported by many members of the local Sinn Féin cumainn, community groups and GAA clubs. The large gathering who braved the extremely inclement weather were led in a decade of the Rosary by Father Brian McCreesh, brother of 1981 hunger striker Raymond McCreesh, who blessed the plaque, which was unveiled by Paddy Quinn, who was himself a hunger striker in 1981.
Sinn Féin Councillor Elena Martin called on Lawrence McKeown, former Hunger Striker, to address those assembled. He reminded people of the sacrifice made by the ten men who died and said that this was a watershed in the republican struggle for independence, a struggle yet to be finalised in this, the last phase.
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