There were Five demands that the prisoners were looking for.
Hunger strike ends
There were Five demands that the prisoners were looking for.
Hunger strike ends
There were Five demands that the prisoners were looking for.
Hunger strike ends
There were Five demands that the prisoners were looking for.
Hunger strike ends
On the 5th February 1981, republican prisoners in Long Kesh issued a statement to the British government that unless the prisoners were awarded special category status, there could be further hunger strikes. There had been several smaller strikes in the Maze and Armagh Women’s Prison previously following the tradition of Thomas Ashe, Terence MacSwiney, Frank […]
Ten IRA and INLA hunger-strikers die between 5 May and 12 August; all but one of the men were in their twenties, the youngest, Thomas McElwee, being 23 years of age. The hunger strike had started on March 1st 1981 after years of the prisoners being on the blanket (blanket protest) and the failure of […]
The controversy over where Bobby Sands wished to be buried has focused attention on the content of the comms sent out from the H Blocks, and the manner in which they have been apparently selectively used, and perhaps edited for political purposes. The communications were usually in the form of tiny notes, sometimes written on toilet paper, […]
The 40th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike on May 5, 1981, brought renewed controversy over his legacy. Former H-Block blanketman Anthony McIntyre published a comm (a message written in tiny writing smuggled out of the prison) from Sands regarding his wish to be buried in another location than the Republican […]