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Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike David Beresford
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

A Mural in Ardoyne Commemorating the Ten Hunger-Strikers. Aug 28, 2011 - In fact everything I've heard about him since, privately and publicly, is that he was proud of his roots, his community, his Irish culture - both games and language, and that he proudly took those into the PSNI with him, organising a They all contributed to us ultimately achieving those demands many years later but on the 3rd October, 1981 when the hunger strike ended ten men were dead and we only had one of our five demands; the right to wear our own clothes. In an eight by ten foot cell in California, Todd Ashker is starving. 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. Nov 5, 2012 - The hunger strikes of 1980/1981, in which ten men including Bobby Sands died, are the most famous use of that political weapon. Battlefields, the story I've been doing for 10 years already, I have no rights to show. Feb 9, 2012 - Ten of the men fasted until death, perhaps the best known of whom was Bobby Sands who died on 5 May 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike. 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. Yan Morvan (1954) His last book – Gangs Story (2012) – was the result of 20 years of work documenting the gangs of Parisian suburbs. Bobby Sand's hunger strike - riots against the British army after the death of the catholic hero. Dec 28, 2012 - The IRA's hunger strikes could have spread to English prisons, it has been revealed in newly released state files. Yet hunger striking has a long history in Irish political culture. UTV Live News – Latest stories, videos and pictures · HomeNewsPolitics & The ten men who died in the 1981 Hunger Strike at the H-Blocks. Bobby Sand's hunger strike - riots. "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.". On March 1st 1981, North Belfast born Republican, Bobby Sands began a tragic journey on behalf of his imprisoned comrades to gain Political Status for Irish With only their bodies as weapons, Republican and Socialist-Republican prisoners followed the path of the dozen Irish Political Prisoners who died on various Hunger-Strikes during other Irish Uprisings in the 20th Century. Aug 20, 2013 - “We are not in search of death; we are looking for real life.” — Tiananmen Square Hunger Strike Declaration, 1989. Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1981.