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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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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 ...
The Irish News10d
The Martin Hurson Story deserves to be told... Gerry Cunningham brings harrowing tale of Tyrone Hunger Striker to the Waterfront Hall
His time was short and the place he met his end in 1981, aged just 27, was the notorious H-Blocks after 46-days on Hunger Strike. Gerry had written a poem about Martin Hurson to mark the 40th ...
RTE Online6mon
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 ...