The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
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Author |
: David Beresford |
Publisher |
: Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 087113702X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780871137029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Ten Men Dead by : David Beresford
In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses.
Author |
: Thomas Hennessey |
Publisher |
: Irish Academic Press |
Total Pages |
: 427 |
Release |
: 2013-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780716532422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0716532425 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hunger Strike by : Thomas Hennessey
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Author |
: Padraig O'Malley |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1991-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807002097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807002094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biting at the Grave by : Padraig O'Malley
"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Author |
: Richard O'Rawe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1848405545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848405547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blanketmen by : Richard O'Rawe
An inside account of the H-Blocks hunger strike of the early 1980s.
Author |
: K. M. Fierke |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107029231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107029236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Self-Sacrifice by : K. M. Fierke
This book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.
Author |
: Bobby Sands Trust |
Publisher |
: Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781171103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781171106 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writings From Prison by : Bobby Sands Trust
In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.
Author |
: Dave Hannigan |
Publisher |
: The O'Brien Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2012-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847174376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 184717437X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Terence MacSwiney by : Dave Hannigan
At the end of his court-martial on August 16th, 1920, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, greeted his sentence of two years in jail by declaring: 'I have decided the term of my imprisonment...I shall be free, alive or dead, within a month.' Four days earlier, British troops had stormed the City Hall in Cork and arrested MacSwiney on charges of possessing an RIC cipher and documents likely to cause disaffection to his Majesty. He immediately began a hunger strike that sparked riots on the streets of Barcelona, caused workers to down tools on the New York waterfront, and prompted mass demonstrations from Buenos Aires to Boston. Enthralled by MacSwiney breaking all previous records for a prisoner going without food, the international press afforded the case so much coverage that Ireland's War of Independence was suddenly parachuted onto the world stage, and King George V was considering over-ruling Prime Minister Lloyd George and enduring a constitutional crisis. As his wife, brothers and sisters kept daily vigil around his bed in Brixton Prison, watching his strength ebb away hour by hour, MacSwiney's fast had Michael Collins preparing reprisal assassinations, Ho Chi Minh waxing lyrical about the Corkman's bravery, and rumours abounding that he was being secretly fed via the communion wafer being given to him each day by his chaplain. Using newly-released archive material, Dave Hannigan has pieced together a gripping, dramatic, and poignant account of one man's courageous stand against the might of an empire.
Author |
: Danny Morrison |
Publisher |
: Brandon Books |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0863223591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780863223594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hunger Strike by : Danny Morrison
A collection of essays by well-known novelists and poets reflecting on the 1980's hungerstrikers in Northern Ireland.
Author |
: Paul Bew |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105009135141 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Northern Ireland by : Paul Bew
En kronologisk ordnet guide til konflikten i Nordirland, de politiske sammenhænge og væsentlige begivenheder i det irsk-engelske forhold fra borgerets marchen i Derry (5.10.1968) til samtalerne for fred i 1993
Author |
: R. K. Walker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2008-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1904684203 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781904684206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hunger Strikes by : R. K. Walker
Republican prisoners were fasting for the right to be recognised as political prisoners. The British government, led by Margaret Thatcher, refused acknowledgement. Bobby Sands, the most famous hunger striker, globally has streets named after him in France and Iran. More than 100,000 people attended his funeral, dispelling the myth that the IRA had no constituency worth addressing. Sands legacy is compounded by the fact that he was elected to the British parliament by the voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981, at the height of the hunger strikes. Never before all shades of Green, Orange and British opinion on the Hunger Strikes have been collected together in the same book.