1981 Hunger Strike: a Turning Point in the Three-Decade-Long Conflict

The 1981 craving strike was the summit of a five-year fight during The Troubles by Irish conservative detainees in Northern Ireland. The dissent started as the sweeping dissent in 1976 when the British government pulled out of Special Category Status for sentenced paramilitary detainees. Irish political student of history, the writer, investigates the different social and political effects of the 1981 Hunger Strike in this book. He looks not just at the effects experienced in...
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The 1981 craving strike was the summit of a five-year fight during The Troubles by Irish conservative detainees in Northern Ireland. The dissent started as the sweeping dissent in 1976 when the British government pulled out of Special Category Status for sentenced paramilitary detainees.
Irish political student of history, the writer, investigates the different social and political effects of the 1981 Hunger Strike in this book. He looks not just at the effects experienced in the North of Ireland yet Britain, Europe, the United States, and the remainder of the world too. So, this is the account of the 1981 Hunger Strike and its commitment to what the creator characterizes as 'the Long Revolution'