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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
Page: 334
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780871137029
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Shaky edifice of British policy in Northern Ireland, which had been so painfully constructed on the hypothesis that blame for the 'Troubles' could be placed on a small gang of thugs and hoodlums who enjoyed no community support,” wrote David Beresford in “Ten Men Dead.”. May 11, 2012 - Throughout Khader's hunger strike, he was compared to Bobby Sands, the first of ten men to die in the Hunger Strike of 1981. Thursday, May 5, 2011 The British government of Margaret Thatcher let ten men starve themselves to death rather than negotiate with them over their demand to be recognised as political prisoners. By “faced down” they mean “let them starve to death. May 6, 2013 - The 14 Hooded Men. This blog is dedicated to them, and will endeavor to tell their story to the world. The first prisoner to begin On September 15, 1981, then-Cuban president Fidel Castro gave the opening speech to the 68th conference of the Interparliamentary Union in Havana. At the time 'troubles' were still on-going. May 5, 2011 - Fidel Castro on Irish hunger strikes: 'One of the most heroic chapters in history'. In 1971, 14 Irish men were illegally detained by British security forces. (1987).Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. Apr 9, 2013 - In many obituaries published today, the story goes that Thatcher “faced down” Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, as the BBC put it. As part of their interrogation, they were subjected to torture. Forever, the 2 men Ireland has a long history of the use of a hunger strike as a form of protest.