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On This Day: Bobby Sands, an IRA prisioner began his history altering hunger stricke
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 ...
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Republican hunger strikes in the Maze prison
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 ...
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From the archive: how The Irish Times reported the hunger strike
THE MORALITY of going on hunger-strike had nothing to do with the National H-Block Committee’s campaign for the resolution of the prison issue in Northern Ireland, the chairman of the committee ...
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Who was Bik McFarlane? The IRA figure linked to notorious kidnapping
Brendan Bik McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was best known in republican circles as the officer commanding in the H-Blocks during the 1981 hunger ... chosen for the hunger strike because of ...
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Mountjoy hunger strikers released after general strike
Dublin, 21 April 1920 - 66 hunger-striking Sinn Féiners ... streets singing the ‘Soldier’s Song’. The Irish Independent described the strike as the ‘united and solemn protests against ...