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Ian Bownes: forensic psychiatrist who assessed mental fitness of IRA hunger strikers in the Maze prison
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 ...
BBC16d
Maze Prison regeneration 'limited to health and safety'
Bryan Gregory, interim chief executive of the Maze Long Kesh Development Corporation ... IRA and INLA inmates died during a hunger strike in the prison in 1981 In 2013, Stormont's then First ...
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On This Day: Bobby Sands, an IRA prisioner began his history altering hunger stricke
Sands was an influential figure within the Maze by this time, having previously been elected as the IRA’s commanding officer within the prison. He was the leader when the second hunger strike ...