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Topic: Remember the 1981 Hunger strike/Free Ireland
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Il Morto Qui Parla
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posted 15 October 2006 04:55 PM
As I'm sure you all know, the 1981 hunger strike was carried out by Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland as a demand for the British government to grant them political status. It ended on the 3rd of OCtober 1981 (I meant to post this earlier but didn't get round to it!) and here is a list of the heroes, along with
their paramiltary affiliation, hometown, dates of death, and length of hunger strike:Bobby Sands, Provisional IRA, Belfast (Twinbrook), 5 May, 66 days
Francis Hughes, PIRA, Bellaghy, 12 May, 59 days
Raymond McCreesh, PIRA, Camlough, 21 May, 61 days
Patsy O’Hara, INLA, Derry, 21 May, 61 days
Joe McDonnell, PIRA, Belfast (Lenadoon), 8 July, 61 days
Martin Hurson, PIRA, Cappagh, 13 July, 46 days
Kevin Lynch, INLA, Dungiven, 1 August, 71 days
Kieran Doherty, PIRA, Belfast (Andersonstown), 2 August, 73 days
Thomas McElwee, PIRA, Bellaghy, 8 August, 62 days
Michael Devine, INLA, Derry, 20 August, 60 days and some nice videos from Irish Republican Media (illegal acts and language in some)- remember that the struggle is far from over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnk0OZI6pk&mode=related&search= (nice PLO reference and great Bobby Sands quote!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ln9SVOSig&mode=related&search= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PBRXDL_Oi8
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