BBC reporter Clive Ferguson considers the impact of the republican hunger strikes as they come to an end at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, in October 1981. Brian Walker profiles the life and ...

A MARCH by about 4,000 people along the Falls Road yesterday marked the beginning of the second H-Block hunger-strike. Demonstrations were also held in New York and London. A statement read on ...

McFarlane was the leader of IRA prisoners in the Maze during the 1981 hunger strike Former senior IRA man Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane has died. In 1976, he was jailed for a gun and bomb attack on the ...