Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford

Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike



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Page: 334
Format: pdf
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780871137029


He died, aged 27 years, on 5 May after 66 days on hungerstrike. As stated in my post for Back Home in Derry, Irish prisoners in HM Prison Maze staged a Hunger Strike in 1981 demanding political prisoner status from the British government, then headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British government had In total, ten men died during the strike before it was called off. Jun 27, 2013 - On 9 April 1981 Bobby Sands was elected as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. One of their number, Echoing Robert Kee's remark about the prisons of Irish history, Liam once told me that as he had begun, for the first time, to meet men from the other side of the communal divide, he realised that the biggest problem in Northern Ireland was a lack of shared history. Aug 6, 2013 - By the time the last hunger striker died on 2 August 1981, I had left Taiwan and was just beginning the process of settling into my next assignment in Hong Kong. Jul 3, 2011 - Between May and August 1981 ten Republican hunger strikers had taken their own lives by starving themselves to death at Long Kesh: H.M.Prison, the Maze. In an eight by ten foot cell in California, Todd Ashker is starving. Jan 31, 2008 - Ireland: Land of Song. Throughout the centuries, the Irish have captured this history in song. News of the strike in a (then) British The essential, statistical information (ten men dead, like so many notches on a gun barrel) reached me, to be sure, but the opportunity to accompany each of those men on his individual journey to Calvary was sacrificed to the demands of service to country. Much of Ireland's identity is steeped in its history. Aug 20, 2013 - “We are not in search of death; we are looking for real life.” — Tiananmen Square Hunger Strike Declaration, 1989.





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