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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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. The publication of declassified papers from thirty years ago has brought new controversy over the British view of the 1981 hunger strike, in which ten men, including Bobby Sands, died. News of the strike in a (then) British The essential, statistical information (ten men dead, like so many notches on a gun barrel) reached me, to be sure, but the opportunity to accompany each of those men on his individual journey to Calvary was sacrificed to the demands of service to country. Jun 27, 2013 - On 9 April 1981 Bobby Sands was elected as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Dec 20, 2011 - Coming 31 years on… 10 men die again 1981/2012. Mar 1, 2014 - 1975, although Mardian's conviction was later reversed.) In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later. Feb 9, 2012 - Ten of the men fasted until death, perhaps the best known of whom was Bobby Sands who died on 5 May 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike. He died, aged 27 years, on 5 May after 66 days on hungerstrike. Seven were members of the IRA, three from the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). Aug 6, 2013 - By the time the last hunger striker died on 2 August 1981, I had left Taiwan and was just beginning the process of settling into my next assignment in Hong Kong. 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. 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. May 5, 2011 - Fidel Castro on Irish hunger strikes: 'One of the most heroic chapters in history'.





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