Musgrave Park Hospital
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Musgrave Park Hospital is a specialist hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It specialises in orthopaedics, rheumatology, sports medicine and rehabilitation of patients of all ages. These specialtie
Entrance to the hospital (on the left)
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
Musgrave Park Hospital
…the Normandy Landings. The hospital has played its part in the history of The Troubles. On 15 December 1980, Sean McKenna, one of the original seven hunger strikers was moved to Musgrave Park Hospital. On 2 November 1991, a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in the Military Wing at Musgrave Park hospital…
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