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


May 22, 2014 - The reason you will not hear anyone else present this wider context is that in Northern Ireland today a social and political history of the Irish war has been replaced by a victims' history of that war. Apr 17, 2013 - My late dad was a leading figure in the Irish Prisoner of War Committee here in Canada during the 1980-81 hunger strikes over which Maggie so ghoulishly presided. €�The Man of the House” is a poignant story that recounts a boy's futile efforts to persuade his mother to sign his father out of prison so that his disabled brother is not taken away. Apr 30, 2013 - This Irish nationalist died 66 days into a hunger strike in 1981, demanding that Irish Republican Army members be held as political prisoners by the British during the Troubles. Sep 10, 2012 - People can die of starvation in as short as a three-week span, or as long as 70 days. The sacrifice of those 10 men, he says, played a important role in the evolution of Northern Ireland. In this, and in all that follows in the post, something is missing, namely any mention of the people killed by those ten men before they went on to martyr themselves for the cause. Haughey's 'lovable rogue' appeal was no doubt helped by his Arms Trial history. All the hunger strikes achieved was proof of Gerry Adams political ruthlessness – he allowed those men to die to increase his own profile. We now rarely talk about the The IRA stated clearly that informers were legitimate targets; in 1981, the then UK prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, allowed 10 men to die on hunger strike rather than concede the principle that they were political prisoners. Apr 10, 2014 - On Sunday 11 May, Tony Devlin's acclaimed play '1981′ telling the story of the Hunger Strike of that year will be performed by the Brassneck theatre Company, for one evening only in London. May 10, 2013 - hungerstrikergloucester20130510 In the summer of 1981, 10 Irish republican prisoners held by the British in Long Kesh Prison made their mark on the long history of “the Troubles” through the simple, yet tragic, act of starving themselves to death in protest against the government's refusal to accord them political prisoner status and respect their basic human rights. Feb 2, 2014 - Nell McCafferty, a feminist journalist who was a delegate of the Armagh Prisoners' Solidarity Committee, published The Armagh Women in 1981, the year in which the prison protests culminated with the second hunger strike. Jun 10, 2011 - This vote marks the latest success for Sinn Fein's electoral strategy, and a legacy of an earlier watershed moment of recent Irish history — the 1981 hunger strike which took place thirty years ago. Apr 25, 2014 - An old and foolish custom, that if a man. Mar 15, 2014 - When republicans recall the self-sacrifice and nobility of those who died on hunger strike in the h-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981 we are mindful that they followed in the footsteps of two Mayo republicans, Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike in english prisons, in 1974 and Such is the interest in Bobby Sands that the diary he wrote while on hunger strike has never been out of print nor has the book about the hunger strike Ten Men Dead. Be wronged, or think Twenty three hunger strikers died – of those twenty-three, twelve were Irish hunger strikers in United Kingdom jails, including the ten who died in the 1981 strike. Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, who was Speaking about the play, Tony Devlin has said: 'The 1981 Irish hungerstrike, in which ten men gave their lives in the struggle for political status, irreversibly shaped political developments for decades to come. He died on hunger strike in 1981.





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