Blanket protest
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The blanket 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 in Northern Ireland. T
Maze prison outside of Belfast.
Brendan Hughes
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Brendan Hughes was a leading Irish republican, revolutionary socialist, and former Officer Commanding of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. His reputation with the republica
Blanket protest
…unable to "slop out" (i.e., empty their chamber pots) so resorted to smearing excrement on the walls of their cells. On 27 October 1980, IRA members Brendan Hughes, Tommy McKearney, Raymond McCartney, Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green, and INLA member John Nixon, began a hunger strike aimed at restoring political…
Early photograph of Brendan Hughes