On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later. His death, along with those of nine ...

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 ...

Cardinal O Fiaich and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. “A follow up call for movement by the British could have avoided another hunger-strike, but their silence was a bitter disappointment ...

This heartbreaking 1981 hunger strike song commemorated the death of Patsy O’Hara. Christy Moore co-wrote with Donal Lunny and does a magnificent version. Written by Irish composer Michael Balfe ...