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

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. Not the media hype that typically surrounds these incredible men and the events in history. By the time death comes, starving people are blind, deaf, speechless, and in a coma. Jan 30, 2014 - As the hunger strike proceeded and more men joined the death fast Margaret Thatcher was advised by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland a Minister a member of her own Cabinet to sit tight and do nothing. Thirty-two years ago, a protest by Irish republican prisoners ended in one of the most courageous and tragic events in Irish history. It began 9 years earlier in July 1972, when Political There were plenty of volunteers but only seven were selected to match the number of men who signed the Easter 1916 Proclamation of the Republic. TEN MEN DEAD IRA/INLA Hunger Strikers 1981. May 11, 2011 - “Not one single day goes by without thoughts of our ten heroes of the 1981 Hunger Strike and the smashed hopes of the 1980 Strike,” says Terry Kirby, a veteran of the Long Kesh blanket protest. €�The 1980 strike Kirby, in the interview, said he wanted to share brief encounters with some of his comrades as he personally knew them. Death of Boston fiddler Larry Reynolds. 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. May 6, 2013 - The Hunger Strike of 1981.