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
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
Dirty protest
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The dirty protest was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners held in the Maze Prison and a protest at Armagh
1981 Irish hunger strike
…Special Category Status (prisoner of war rather than criminal status) for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. In 1980, seven prisoners participated in the…
A prison cell during the dirty protest