In June, negotiations with the hunger strikers began when the Irish Commission for ... On 31 July 1981, Paddy Quinn's family took him off the strike, but this was followed by the deaths of three ...

As Northern Ireland Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands ... Bobby Sands. Sands died on May 5, 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike, but what he and his fellow inmates endured while in ...

Whatever the humanitarian considerations, the ending of the strike, without winning ... The Cabinet’s attitude became known to the hunger-strikers- and The Irish Times- yesterday.

According to its constitution, Saoradh's objective is to "effect an end to Britain's illegal occupation of the six counties" and establish a 32-county Irish ... 1981. During the republican hunger ...