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


One by one, ten young men embarked on the agonizing protest of hunger strike until death to secure the basic human rights and dignity of Political Status for all Irish Republican Political Prisoners. 28 years ago today, 3rd October, the strikes were called to an official end. May 19, 2013 - Roger Casement Cumann Monday 21st May will mark the 26th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Volunteer Raymond McCreesh, South Armagh brigade, Óglaigh na hÉireann. Mar 21, 2008 - Beresford (1987) Ten Men Dead: the story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. Staying in A website gives a list of republicans executed, shot by the authorities or dead of hunger strike from 1916 to 1981. Sep 30, 2008 - It's not entirely surprising that director McQueen has chosen to open his film about Bobby Sands's 1981 hunger strike in the Maze prison by promoting audience identification with a Loyalist guard. This is part of the built-in forgetting, the victor's history, the writing out of the very terms with which these irish prisoners were recognised. Aug 13, 2012 - Rather its use of imagery elevates the events of the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikes – and in particular Sands' death – to mythic status. Ask why a bank AND NOT THE STATE is investing in social justice? The ten men survived without food for 46 to 73 days, taking only water and salt, before succumbing. During 1981, there were two hunger strikes – the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Indeed To embark on a hunger strike is serious enough, for ten young men (Sands was twenty-seven years old) to die shows a combination of desperation and single-minded commitment. Collins (1986) The Irish Hunger Strike. Margaret Thatcher, Northern Ireland, the troubles, UK. Sep 10, 2012 - People can die of starvation in as short as a three-week span, or as long as 70 days. Mar 17, 2012 - According to Victor Rajakulendran, the LTTE remains a shining example, a “good history,” for all Sri Lankan Tamils to follow. Campbell (et al.) (1994) Nor Meekly Serve my Time: the H-Block Struggle 1976-1981. Aug 19, 2009 - 'Over the years a lot has been written and said about the hunger strike of 1981. Aug 18, 2008 - In 1981, ten men sacrificed their lives for the freedoms of many; in a hunger strike at the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison, Occupied North of Ireland. Some notable pieces of work stand out such as Nor Meekly Serve My Time, Ten Men Dead or the recent film, Hunger. A miasma of religiose masochism hangs over Irish republicanism.





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