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 ...

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 ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

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 ...