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 ...
It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...