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

Apr 10, 2014 - On Sunday 11 May, Tony Devlin's acclaimed play '1981′ telling the story of the Hunger Strike of that year will be performed by the Brassneck theatre Company, for one evening only in London. Mar 14, 2014 - It's hard to argue that the eventual freedom of South African blacks would have been better served if he had risked death like the Irish in 1981 or had pressed only for his own release. Our story, and the story of the H-Blocks, why the British built prison camps and their forts in our country, is still being revised and told by people who are not friends of the Republican people. Staying in A website gives a list of republicans executed, shot by the authorities or dead of hunger strike from 1916 to 1981. The ten men survived without food for 46 to 73 days, taking only water and salt, before succumbing. Feb 9, 2012 - Ten of the men fasted until death, perhaps the best known of whom was Bobby Sands who died on 5 May 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike. Jan 15, 2014 - Her disgraceful decision to let ten IRA hunger strikers die in the H Blocks, in 1981, will always sully her name with the Irish worldwide, as will her hectoring attitude towards Irish people in general. Sep 10, 2012 - In 1981 ten Republican volunteers began a hunger strike in Long Kesh prison to regain political status for paramilitary prisoners, and counter the efforts of the British government to criminalize the Republican fight for a united Ireland. Mar 17, 2012 - According to Victor Rajakulendran, the LTTE remains a shining example, a “good history,” for all Sri Lankan Tamils to follow. Ten years Each song, poem, and statement tells a piece of the prisoners' story and unearths glimpses of the ten men who gave everything for a cause they believed would change the future of their struggle and their country. Nov 18, 2013 - Republican Socialist News - News and activities of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. A miasma of religiose masochism hangs over Irish republicanism. Fellow ANC member Mac Maharaj, who smuggled out the In the case of the Irish, for instance, the hunger strike in which 10 men eventually died came only after five years of just the kind of disobedience Mandela advocated. Sep 10, 2012 - People can die of starvation in as short as a three-week span, or as long as 70 days. Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, who was Speaking about the play, Tony Devlin has said: 'The 1981 Irish hungerstrike, in which ten men gave their lives in the struggle for political status, irreversibly shaped political developments for decades to come. Welcome, thank you all for being here today for the unveiling of this mural dedicated to the memory of the ten men that died on Hunger Strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981.