Vigil for Palestine held in west Belfast following Israel’s resumption of bombing campaign
Crowds gathered in west Belfast to hold a vigil for Palestine on Saturday, just days following the resumption of Israel’s ...
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Hunger strikes and force feeding spark protests around the country
Dublin, 25 September 1917 - Republican prisoners have gone on hunger strike in prisons around the country. They are protesting against their treatment as criminals and are demanding that they be ...
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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 ...
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Mountjoy hunger strikers released after general strike
Dublin, 21 April 1920 - 66 hunger-striking Sinn Féiners were released from Mountjoy Jail on 14 April. The men had been on hunger striker since 4 April as a protest against the refusal of ...