IRISH-AMERICANS HONOR 1981 HUNGER STRIKERS WHO DIED IN PRISONSHANNON D. HARRINGTON, Staff Writer
There’s no need, according to its writer, Gerry Cunningham, who says the tickets for The Martin Hurson Story, which recounts the life and death of one of the hunger-strikers who died in the H-blocks at the Maze prison in 1981, sold out...
The Black and Green Atlantic: Violence, History, and Memory in Natasha Trethewey's "South" and Seamus Heaney's "North" of Northern Ireland--two years after ten Irish Republican Army hunger strikers died in The Maze prison--this relationship was recognized in Harlem-born St......
He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During Sands's strike, he was elected to the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate. His death and those of nine other hunger strikers was ...
The British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, whose best friend was murdered by an IRA splinter group, who survived an assassination attempt that killed five people at the Conservative Party's convention, and whose refusal to compromise with IRA hunger strikers in 1981 led to 10 men starving ...
Although the New York Times gave less credence to the hunger strikers' claims than did the Irish Times, it nevertheless maintained that there was a significant political dimension to the conflict. The Times adhered most closely to the official account of the hunger strike, portraying it as a ...
In it, I outline a theory of ethnic violence that highlights the exposure of the body to abjection, focusing specifically on the violence against the bodies of Irish Republican hunger strikers during the protest of 1981. I pursue two lines of argument. First, that self-starvation was a means...
Irish Hunger Strikers Monument in Havana, Cuba: Public and Private CommemorationsGarcía, Giselle GonzálezIrish Migration Studies in Latin America
Irish Hunger Strikes 1912-1981 Between 1917 and 1981, 22 Irishmen died on hunger strike. Now, for the first time, the stories of the hunger strikers are chronicled in one book, bringing ... B Flynn 被引量: 8发表: 2011年 Hunger-Strikes: A Prisoner's Right or a 'Wicked Folly'? The...
HUNGER strikesREPUBLICANISMFollowing the deaths of ten Irish republican hunger strikers in 1981, radical Basque nationalists and Irish republicans of the Basque izquierda abertzale ('patriotic left') and Irish republican movement respectively, began to develop ever closer ties of...