The National Hunger Strike Commemoration will take place in Belfast at 2.00pm on Sunday, 14 August next.
Buses will leave Derry for the event which, in recent years, has been held in the city, Dungiven and Bellaghy.
Encouraging people from Derry to attend, Sinn Foyle MLA and former hunger striker, Raymond McCartney, said the prison struggles of the late 1970s and early 1980s were “without any doubt” a key moment in the Irish struggle for freedom and justice.
He added: “And within that period the hunger strike of 1981 is, of course, the defining moment.
Derry men Patsy O’Hara and Michael Devine were among the 10 republicans who died in protest.
Mr McCartney (pictured) added: “The national commemoration in Belfast is one of the biggest events on the republican calendar and I appeal to the wider republican community in Derry, to the people of Ireland and international sympathisers to mobilise and show support for the ideals for which the Hunger Strikers gave their all.”
The assembly point for the march is Divis Tower, just off the Westlink,
It will then proceed up the Falls Road.
To reserve a seat on a bus from Derry, telephone 02871 377551.
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