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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ISBN: 9780871137029
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page: 334
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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. Remember Bobby Sands and the summer of 1981, Ten Irish hunger strikers starved to death. Staying in A website gives a list of republicans executed, shot by the authorities or dead of hunger strike from 1916 to 1981. My personal expereinces and the history I have read is to altogether too recent. Dec 30, 2011 - In that spirit, hopefully, our leaders and their advisers will find time to peruse the reports of the 1981 State Papers, released to public view today under the 30-year rule. It was, of The award-winning 2008 film Hunger, starring Kerry actor Michael Fassbender, conveys to a new generation the drama and squalor of that prison fast to the death by 10 men whose average age was 25. 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. May 16, 2013 - This concern comes as the longest hunger strike in the prison's history has long exceeded the point of what experts describe as irreversible health risks – and coincides with reports of prison authorities allegedly hampering the inmates' Studies of the 1981 Irish hunger strike showed that most people couldn't survive after losing more than 40 per cent of their body weight. The ten men survived without food for 46 to 73 days, taking only water and salt, before succumbing. Apr 25, 2014 - An old and foolish custom, that if a man. A miasma of religiose masochism hangs over Irish republicanism. Aug 20, 2013 - Irish National Liberation Army volunteer Mickey Devine was the tenth and last Irish Republican POW to give his life in the tragic Hunger Strike of 1981. 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. Mar 17, 2012 - According to Victor Rajakulendran, the LTTE remains a shining example, a “good history,” for all Sri Lankan Tamils to follow. Mickey Devine Irish Republican Socialism, Ireland, Marxism, History & Politics David Beresford's 'Ten Men Dead' which many viewed erroneously, as recent events have uncovered, as the definitive account of the 1981 Hunger Strike, was not particularly kind to Mickey Devine's memory in it's pen portrait of his life.





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