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

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. 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. 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. An award-nominated Irish blog on Irish history and Irish politics-from today and yesterday:all 32 Counties ! This year marks the 30th anniversary of the hunger strikes by Irish republican prisoners n the British-run Long Kesh concentration camp — an event that shook the world. May 19, 2013 - Roger Casement Cumann Monday 21st May will mark the 26th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Volunteer Raymond McCreesh, South Armagh brigade, Óglaigh na hÉireann. Jan 24, 2014 - Beresford is, of course, the author of that classic account of the 1981 hunger strike Ten Men Dead, which has never gone out of print in twenty-seven years. Campbell (et al.) (1994) Nor Meekly Serve my Time: the H-Block Struggle 1976-1981. 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. Collins (1986) The Irish Hunger Strike. Mar 21, 2008 - Beresford (1987) Ten Men Dead: the story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. May 5, 2011 - Fidel Castro on Irish hunger strikes: 'One of the most heroic chapters in history'. Mar 14, 2014 - Bobby Sands, a 27-year-old member of the IRA, led a hunger strike at Her Majesty's Prison Maze in Belfast which resulted in the death of ten men. Between the years 1917 and 1981 , 22 Irish men died on hunger strike in the fight for Irish Freedom. The first prisoner to begin the hunger strike was 27-year old Bobby Sands. 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. 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.