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H-Block prisoners aimed to ‘destroy the system’ in the years after the 1981 hunger strike
Former IRA hunger striker Laurence McKeown has revealed how republican prisoners aimed to “destroy the system” in the years after the 1981 hunger strike. From Randalstown in Co Antrim, Mr McKeown ...
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Effects of hunger strikes on the body revealed
In 1981, ten Irish republicans starved themselves to death in Northern Ireland, demanding to be recognised as political prisoners. Their leader, Bobby Sands, survived 66 days without food before he ...
When a hunger strike began in Cork in August 1920, in the words of historian William Murphy, “a ghoulish, fatal contest unfolded”. Three prisoners died in October: Michael Fitzgerald, Joseph Murphy ...
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