Daniel Gerard Morrison is an Irish former Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, author and activist who played a crucial role in public events during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. An Irish
Morrison in 2026
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
Danny Morrison (Irish republican)
…of Adams' faction in the republican movement in the late 1970s, Morrison succeeded Seán Ó Brádaigh as Director of Publicity for Sinn Féin. During the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Morrison acted as spokesman for the IRA hunger strikers' leader Bobby Sands, who was elected to the British Parliament on an Anti H-Block platform…
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