This episode seriously inflamed the sectarian 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. Clive Ferguson reports on the end of the second hunger strike in the Maze prison. BBC reporter Clive Ferguson ...

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 ...

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 ...

he would drive past towering murals of Irish Republican Army leaders and hunger strikers like Brendan Hughes and Bobby Sands. “I was very aware of [Hughes] as a person, and people would sing ...

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 ...

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 ...

A prison hunger strike was not morally justified in present ... of the committee not to make statements on any aspects of the troubles in the north, including violence. “We encourage our action ...

taking in the early triggers for the Troubles, the intense violence of the 70s and 80s, and the bombings and hunger strikes. It also acknowledges the way normal life of a sort continued around the ...

The men had been on hunger striker since 4 April as a protest against the refusal of authorities to recognise them as political prisoners. They demanded that they be tried or released, and the ...

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 ...