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Download or read book Ten Men Dead written by David Beresford and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses.
Book Synopsis The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by : Michael C. Mentel
Download or read book The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike written by Michael C. Mentel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunger strike of 1981 is regarded as one of the most tragic events in Irish history. Ten men died over a period of 217 days in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh (Maze) prison while exercising the most extreme form of civil disobedience available to them. The Troubles that gave rise to the hunger strike had roots in the centuries of socio-economic subjugation and religious persecution in Ireland. In 1971, the British government began internment without trial for persons suspected of belonging to paramilitary organizations. Eventually, the British government granted Special Category Status to these prisoners before later stripping it from the prisons by 1976, leading to a five-year prisoner protest that culminated in the 1981 hunger strike. This book critically examines declassified British government documents that detail how the government's policies led to the 1981 hunger strike, how Margaret Thatcher exacerbated the strike by refusing steps to end it, and how the hunger strike eventually led to peace in the north. Analysis also illustrates how the 1981 hunger strike, and the ten men who died on it, forced a revolutionary change in the political and governmental structure of the north and paved a road to peace that concluded with the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Book Synopsis Biting at the Grave by : Padraig O'Malley
Download or read book Biting at the Grave written by Padraig O'Malley and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Hunger Strike written by Thomas Hennessey and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: xx
Download or read book Blanketmen written by Richard O'Rawe and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside account of the H-Blocks hunger strike of the early 1980s.
Book Synopsis Writings From Prison by : Bobby Sands Trust
Download or read book Writings From Prison written by Bobby Sands Trust and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.
Download or read book Blanketmen written by Richard O'Rawe and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. Now O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA Army Council and the prisoners themselves. Passionate, disturbing and controversial, Blanketmen is a landmark book in the cruel history of Northern Ireland." -- Back cover.
Download or read book Hunger Strike written by Thomas Hennessey and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoriative new history by historian Thomas Hennessey based on recently declassified British government documents, argues that it was amost impossible for the British government to grant the demands of the Republican prisoners, regardless of the impact the hunger strikes had in boosting support for Sinn Fein. The concession of the '5 demands' would have amounted to POW status for Republican prisones and would have fatally undermined the British position that it was fighting terrorism. Controversially, Hennessey concludes that the long-term consequence for the Republican Movement was an irreversible change of strategy, effectively sowing the seeds of the end of the armed struggle as far back as 1981. Thatcher's personal role in the hunger strikes is forensically analysed.
Book Synopsis The Irish Hunger Strike by : Tom Collins
Download or read book The Irish Hunger Strike written by Tom Collins and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Self-Sacrifice by : K. M. Fierke
Download or read book Political Self-Sacrifice written by K. M. Fierke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.
Book Synopsis Afterlives: the Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer That by : Richard O'rawe
Download or read book Afterlives: the Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer That written by Richard O'rawe and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By July 1981 four republican hunger strikers had already died in Long Kesh Prison. A fifth, Joe McDonnell, was clinging to life. To outsiders, Margaret Thatcher appeared unbending; yet, far from the prying eyes of the press, her government was making a substantial offer to the prisoners. On 5 July this offer was given to Gerry Adams in Belfast, and relayed to the prison leadership. In this important sequel to the bestseller Blanketmen, O'Rawe documents the four-year war of words that followed. He interviews former members of the IRA Army Council who claim that a five-man committee led by Adams had contol of the hunger strike, keeping the Army Council in the dark about the British governments's offer. He uses contemporary records to show that Thatcher had approved the offer but that Gerry Adams and the committee had replied it was not enough', telling the hunger srikers that nothing was on the table'. The prison leadership accepted the British offer, but six hunger strikers went on to die. O'Rawe asks: why? This hidden history, using contemporaneous photographs, pinpoints the key players in the drama and their responses, identifying Mountain Climber, a Derry businessman who brokered the deal, and describing the contributors to the crucial hunger strike conferences of 2008-09. O'Rawe combines a moving and courageous personal record with first-hand documentation. He provides essential background and astringent commentary on the realpolitick of the peace process and republicanism in Northern Ireland today, and its impact upon the country as a whole. With a Foreword by Ed Moloney, author of The Official History of the IRA.
Book Synopsis The Hunger Strikes by : R. K. Walker
Download or read book The Hunger Strikes written by R. K. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republican prisoners were fasting for the right to be recognised as political prisoners. The British government, led by Margaret Thatcher, refused acknowledgement. Bobby Sands, the most famous hunger striker, globally has streets named after him in France and Iran. More than 100,000 people attended his funeral, dispelling the myth that the IRA had no constituency worth addressing. Sands legacy is compounded by the fact that he was elected to the British parliament by the voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981, at the height of the hunger strikes. Never before all shades of Green, Orange and British opinion on the Hunger Strikes have been collected together in the same book.
Download or read book Northern Ireland written by Paul Bew and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En kronologisk ordnet guide til konflikten i Nordirland, de politiske sammenhænge og væsentlige begivenheder i det irsk-engelske forhold fra borgerets marchen i Derry (5.10.1968) til samtalerne for fred i 1993
Download or read book Hunger Strike written by Danny Morrison and published by Brandon Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by well-known novelists and poets reflecting on the 1980's hungerstrikers in Northern Ireland.
Book Synopsis Terence MacSwiney by : Dave Hannigan
Download or read book Terence MacSwiney written by Dave Hannigan and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of his court-martial on August 16th, 1920, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, greeted his sentence of two years in jail by declaring: 'I have decided the term of my imprisonment...I shall be free, alive or dead, within a month.' Four days earlier, British troops had stormed the City Hall in Cork and arrested MacSwiney on charges of possessing an RIC cipher and documents likely to cause disaffection to his Majesty. He immediately began a hunger strike that sparked riots on the streets of Barcelona, caused workers to down tools on the New York waterfront, and prompted mass demonstrations from Buenos Aires to Boston. Enthralled by MacSwiney breaking all previous records for a prisoner going without food, the international press afforded the case so much coverage that Ireland's War of Independence was suddenly parachuted onto the world stage, and King George V was considering over-ruling Prime Minister Lloyd George and enduring a constitutional crisis. As his wife, brothers and sisters kept daily vigil around his bed in Brixton Prison, watching his strength ebb away hour by hour, MacSwiney's fast had Michael Collins preparing reprisal assassinations, Ho Chi Minh waxing lyrical about the Corkman's bravery, and rumours abounding that he was being secretly fed via the communion wafer being given to him each day by his chaplain. Using newly-released archive material, Dave Hannigan has pieced together a gripping, dramatic, and poignant account of one man's courageous stand against the might of an empire.
Download or read book One Day in My Life written by Bobby Sands and published by . This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis One Day In My Life by : Bobby Sands Trust
Download or read book One Day In My Life written by Bobby Sands Trust and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Sands was 27 years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike at Long Kesh Prison, outside Belfast. This book documents a day in the life of Bobby Sands. It is a tale of human bravery, endurance and courage against a backdrop of suffering, terror and harassment. It will live on as a constant reminder of events that should never have happened – and hopefully will never happen again.
