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

May 25, 2009 - One of the key points of the meeting was the presentation of the British offer that went into the prison, as read by Liam Clarke, the Sunday Times journalist who has been following the 1981 Hunger Strike story and making Freedom of . Dec 28, 2012 - The IRA's hunger strikes could have spread to English prisons, it has been revealed in newly released state files. Fellow ANC member Mac Maharaj, who smuggled out the In the case of the Irish, for instance, the hunger strike in which 10 men eventually died came only after five years of just the kind of disobedience Mandela advocated. UTV Live News – Latest stories, videos and pictures · HomeNewsPolitics & The ten men who died in the 1981 Hunger Strike at the H-Blocks. Oct 2, 2005 - Today is the last day of my fast in support of the ten men who died in 1981 in the Irish Hunger Strikes. Danny Morrison in the Irish Times on 5th February 2005 said ''It is telling that not once in 24 years has the NIO stated that before Joe McDonnell's death it made an offer to the hunger strikers which was turned by the IRA's army council. "That potential hunger strike would be motivated by a desire for repatriation to Northern Ireland prisons and I have reason to believe that it would be imminent, pending any resolution of the H-blocks crisis.". Oct 31, 2009 - Pete Brook at Prison Photography recently posted this photo of the 10 men who died during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. Irish Republican History & Remembrance. To much critical acclaim Steve McQueen has retold the story on the big screen. Jul 5, 2013 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) joined hunger strike on 8 May 1981 and died on 8 July 1981 after 61 days without food' **This information is from the CAIN page 'The Hunger Strike of 1981 - List of Dead and Other Hunger Strikers', THE FOURTH IRA Volunteer to join the hunger-strike for political status was Joe McDonnell, a thirty-year-old married man with two children, from the Lenadoon housing estate in West Belfast. Mar 14, 2014 - It's hard to argue that the eventual freedom of South African blacks would have been better served if he had risked death like the Irish in 1981 or had pressed only for his own release.