While the Troubles took place during the last half ... "When we starved together on hunger strike, it was not to "move the process forward," it was not for seats in a British government ...

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 ...

During the Troubles, Northern Ireland politics revolved ... In 1981, before his death on hunger strike, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands secured election as member of the UK parliament for Fermanagh ...

As someone who grew up in Belfast before the so-called Troubles, and who has spent ... man to die on hunger strike in 1981, grew up in Rathcoole, a religiously mixed estate that would become ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking book about GAA members killed during the Troubles is set to be published ... including IRA hunger strikers Kieran Doherty and his INLA counterpart Kevin Lynch.

The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles. Although ...

BERLIN--After three-and-a-half weeks on a hunger strike, Henning Jeschke is frail and gaunt, but determined to go on, still hoping to pressure the three candidates for chancellor of Germany into ...