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Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by David Beresford

Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike David Beresford ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 334
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780871137029

They, too, were protesting against Criminalisation. I wrote the song 'The Roll of Honour' in 1982 at a time of great social and political upheaval in the North of Ireland. This is part of the built-in forgetting, the victor's history, the writing out of the very terms with which these irish prisoners were recognised. Nov 5, 2012 - The hunger strikes of 1980/1981, in which ten men including Bobby Sands died, are the most famous use of that political weapon. May 24, 2007 - Ten Dead Men tells the story of the 1981 hunger strike by IRA members imprisoned in the now infamous Maze Prison (known as Long Kesh to the Republicans). Yet hunger striking has a long history in Irish political culture. Feb 10, 2014 - Ballads have been an integral part of our culture and heritage from time in memorial and the role of the Bards and Street Singers holds a unique and honoured place in our history. It was to commemorate the sacrifice of ten young men who died in the Hunger Strike of 1981. Aug 13, 2012 - Rather its use of imagery elevates the events of the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikes – and in particular Sands' death – to mythic status. Indeed To embark on a hunger strike is serious enough, for ten young men (Sands was twenty-seven years old) to die shows a combination of desperation and single-minded commitment. Feb 23, 2012 - But Fergus McCann's magical teen summer is pretty much wrecked by the fact that he's living in Northern Ireland in 1981, and his older brother Joey is on a hunger strike in Maze Prison.