The hunger strikes by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze prison ... In all, 10 prisoners died before the strike was called off on 3 October 1981. The British government made no ...

On March 1, 1981 ... began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later. His death, along with those of nine other hunger strikers, sent shockwaves through Ireland and ...

James Hawthorne: Reporting violence - Lessons from Northern Ireland? (Speech given to the Edinburgh Radio Festival, August 1981): It was the strike which brought the province to a standstill and ...

At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...