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Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike David Beresford
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

It was to commemorate the sacrifice of ten young men who died in the Hunger Strike of 1981. They, too, were protesting against Criminalisation. UTV Live News – Latest stories, videos and pictures · HomeNewsPolitics & The ten men who died in the 1981 Hunger Strike at the H-Blocks. We now rarely talk about the The IRA stated clearly that informers were legitimate targets; in 1981, the then UK prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, allowed 10 men to die on hunger strike rather than concede the principle that they were political prisoners. Dec 28, 2012 - The IRA's hunger strikes could have spread to English prisons, it has been revealed in newly released state files. 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. "That potential hunger strike would be motivated by a desire for repatriation to Northern Ireland prisons and I have reason to believe that it would be imminent, pending any resolution of the H-blocks crisis.". I wrote the song 'The Roll of Honour' in 1982 at a time of great social and political upheaval in the North of Ireland. May 2, 2014 - The reason you will not hear anyone else present this wider context is that in Northern Ireland today a social and political history of the Irish war has been replaced by a victims' history of that war. Feb 4, 2014 - Government archives in Dublin, Belfast and London opened today, giving new insights into the events of 1981.