Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. David Beresford

Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike


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Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike David Beresford
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It was to commemorate the sacrifice of ten young men who died in the Hunger Strike of 1981. In 1981, as British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher responded to the IRA Hunger Strike by forcefully pursuing a policy of “criminalization”. May 5, 2011 - Fidel Castro on Irish hunger strikes: 'One of the most heroic chapters in history'. Thursday, May 5, 2011 The British government of Margaret Thatcher let ten men starve themselves to death rather than negotiate with them over their demand to be recognised as political prisoners. Nov 12, 2012 - Sands was the leader of the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike which took place in the notorious Maze Prison in Northern Ireland and the first of ten men who would ultimately die during the protest. I wrote the song 'The Roll of Honour' in 1982 at a time of great social and political upheaval in the North of Ireland. Mar 15, 2014 - When republicans recall the self-sacrifice and nobility of those who died on hunger strike in the h-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981 we are mindful that they followed in the footsteps of two Mayo republicans, Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike in english prisons, in 1974 and Such is the interest in Bobby Sands that the diary he wrote while on hunger strike has never been out of print nor has the book about the hunger strike Ten Men Dead. The first prisoner to begin On September 15, 1981, then-Cuban president Fidel Castro gave the opening speech to the 68th conference of the Interparliamentary Union in Havana. Feb 10, 2014 - Ballads have been an integral part of our culture and heritage from time in memorial and the role of the Bards and Street Singers holds a unique and honoured place in our history. Apr 12, 2013 - Margaret Thatcher and the 1981 Hunger Strikes will remain inexorably linked. He died, aged 27 years, on 5 May after 66 days on hungerstrike. Jan 24, 2014 - Beresford is, of course, the author of that classic account of the 1981 hunger strike Ten Men Dead, which has never gone out of print in twenty-seven years. They, too, were protesting against Criminalisation. Jun 27, 2013 - On 9 April 1981 Bobby Sands was elected as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Now, it is very important to note that there are at least two key differences between the detainees at GITMO and the republican prisoners of Long Kesh.





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