1981 Irish general election
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The 1981 Irish general election to the 22nd Dáil was held on Thursday, 11 June, following the dissolution of the 21st Dáil on 21 May by President Patrick Hillery on the request of Taoiseach Charles Ha
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1981 Irish hunger strike
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A five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland culminated in a hunger strike in 1981. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976 when the British gover
1981 Irish general election
…expected to call the election at the time of the Fianna Fáil ardfheis on 14 February, but the Stardust fire caused the ardfheis to be postponed, and the Republican hunger strike in the Maze Prison began in March. By the dissolution in May, much of the earlier optimism in the party had filtered out. The Anti H-Block movement fielded abstentionist…
A commemoration on the 2006 25th anniversary of the hunger strike
Tommy McKearney, who took part in the blanket protest, dirty protest and 1980 hunger strike
Maze prison outside of Belfast where the hunger strike took place
Memorial for those who died in the hunger strikes at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast