Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
Mass hunger strike of 7,000 republican prisoners begins after Civil War
On 23 May,1923, the Irish Civil War officially ended, but many republican prisoners were kept in prison by the newly-established Free-State government, with some 12,000 men and women in prison in camps such as the Curragh and Gormanstown, and in Mountjoy and Cork Jail. Conditions were generally poor for the prisoners, and Senator W.B. Yeats […]