Pawns in the Game: Irish Hunger Strikes 1912–1981
Barry Flynn
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
Between 1917 and 1981, 22 Irishmen died on hunger strike. Now, for the first time, the stories of the hunger strikers are chronicled in one book, bringing to light previously hidden histories. From the deaths on hunger strike of Thomas Ashe in 1917 and Terence MacSwiney in 1920, while imprisoned by the British government, to the death in 1981 of Michael Devine, the last republican prisoner to die on hunger strike, Pawns in the Game teases out the tangled mesh of the politics and psychology of those who adopted this radical protest of last resort and those who allowed them to die. It is a story of fanaticism, pride and injustice, and the indifference of former comrades when power in the Dáil beckoned. Key interviewees include Gerry Kelly, Raymond McCartney, Pat Sheehan and Danny Morrison.
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Bobby Sands, Margaret Thatcher, Mountjoy Prison, Terence MacSwiney, Diplock court, Sinn Féin, de Valera, Gerry Adams, Fermanagh, Hugh Feeney, Patsy O'Hara, Northern Ireland, Bernadette McAliskey, Joe McDonnell, Francis Hughes, Robert Bradford, Garret FitzGerald, Tomas MacCurtain, Sean McCaughey, Curragh Camp, H-Block, SDLP, Gerry Fitt, Ian Paisley, Hunger strike, hunger striker, Gerald Boland, Easter Rising, Michael Collins, Ray McCreesh, Bernadette Devlin, INLA, Brixton Prison, Frank Stagg, Thomas Ashe, Belfast, Charles Haughey, Humphrey Atkins, IRA, Long Kesh, An Phoblacht, Maze, Maggie Thatcher, Cork, Owen Carron