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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 David Beresford ebook
Page: 334
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780871137029
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Death of Boston fiddler Larry Reynolds. IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in prison following a 66 day hunger strike. €�The 1980 strike Kirby, in the interview, said he wanted to share brief encounters with some of his comrades as he personally knew them. 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. Jul 13, 2013 - THE INSIDE STORY OF THE 1981 IRISH HUNGER STRIKE, BASED ON THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE IN PENAL HISTORY Buy from amazon: http://amzn.to/17aXiKd. Sands would be the first of ten IRA men to die in an effort to gain political status in a very public battle with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. *********************** WATCH: A Short History of Ireland 1981:Death of Hunger Striker Bobby Sands. 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. Jan 15, 2014 - Her disgraceful decision to let ten IRA hunger strikers die in the H Blocks, in 1981, will always sully her name with the Irish worldwide, as will her hectoring attitude towards Irish people in general. Business Speaker, Author and History buff. 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. May 11, 2011 - “Not one single day goes by without thoughts of our ten heroes of the 1981 Hunger Strike and the smashed hopes of the 1980 Strike,” says Terry Kirby, a veteran of the Long Kesh blanket protest. In the House of Commons Thatcher commented on Sands death “Mr. Not the media hype that typically surrounds these incredible men and the events in history. 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.