We get a bit worried when a man with an English accent phones up and wants a tour of Derry.” With a wave he accelerated away. This is, without a doubt, one of the most harrowing and detailed accounts of the Irish Hunger Strike of the early 1980's that I have read to date.

The original pathologist's report recorded the hunger strikers' cause of death as "self-imposed starvation". This was later amended to simply "starvation", after protests from the dead strikers' families. The coroner recorded verdicts of "starvation, self-imposed". [44] Other participants in the hunger strike [ edit ] By the time the book was published I had the details of the missing areas, showing Mrs Thatcher had lied when she had made her often-repeated statement that her government “does not talk to terrorists”. Do you like that book?” I asked. They looked at me as if I was bats. “You know, I wrote it,” I said with a big smile. The two of them hurried out the door throwing anxious looks over their shoulders as they went. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-10-26 14:49:03 Boxid IA173401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor

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urn:lcp:tenmendeadstory00bere:epub:a5cb3b79-e522-46ba-8cad-8af3f1d3676d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tenmendeadstory00bere Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6pz69h9c Isbn 9780586065334 urn:oclc:26012164 Republisher_date 20120407030511 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120406200837 Scanner scribe17.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) David’s reaction to Parkinson’s disease provoked some of his best work. Variously comparing himself to a soldier trapped behind enemy lines, to a foreign correspondent sending despatches from a far-off land, or to a prisoner held for an unspecified offence, he used his writing skills to share with readers his experience of this debilitating condition. The fact that the song's title refers to a specific number of dead men suggests a deliberate and intentional choice on the part of the band. Collusion highlighted during Hunger Strike weekend". An Phoblacht. 6 May 2004 . Retrieved 1 June 2007.

a b O'Hearn, Denis (2006). Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song. Pluto Press. p.377. ISBN 0-7453-2572-6. a b c Taylor, Peter (1997). Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp.251–252. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2. English, Richard (2003). Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA. Pan Books. pp.195–196. ISBN 0-330-49388-4. Warned by people in Dublin never to ask a man his religion in the North, I asked cunningly, “Do you feel safe around here?” What happened in the hunger strike?". BBC. 5 May 2006. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007 . Retrieved 28 May 2007.

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In 1968 he married Marianne Morrell. She survives him, along with their children, Belinda and Norman; his partner, Ellen Elmendorp, and their son, Joris; and his eldest brother, Garth. This is by far the worst British film I have ever seen. An absolute disgrace to my eyes, ears and general well being. Its suppose to be a 'action thriller' but turned out to be the unintentional 'Comedy of the year'. Me and my mates had a right good laugh at this tripe. God knows where we stumbled upon this steaming pile of dog toffee but it was soon discarded from my presence. I hate it that much it has a special place in my heart. We watched it several times and even viewed the 'making of', what a top laugh that was. I was tortured with the theme tune, little quotes and reminders of scenes to this day. All in all the term 'hate from the pit of my stomach' is thrown around too much these days but Ten Dead Men really fits the bill. The cast and crew should be ashamed of what they have done and let loose on the unsuspecting public. Ten men took Ryans life way. Ten men had to pay. Including Brendan Carr, Lee Latchford Evans, Terry Stone and that idiot 'the Projects Manager'. Also breaking up the narrative and the sourced material, Beresford includes small details of news and troubles outside the jail that appear virtually at random and strike home the greater implications of the strike on the country. These small bites, written in eerily measured tones, detail what appear like random deaths and community killings that are both chilling and without discrimination. This only augments the way in the which to book opts out of partisanship and instead becomes the chronicle of a singularly human tragedy - the 'terrible beauty' of Yeats' poem all those long years ago.

White, Robert (2006). Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary. Indiana University Press. p.282. ISBN 978-0253347084. If you’re going to do a book on the hunger strike you’ll need the comms,” Tom Hartley of Sinn Féin observed one day. I knew what a ‘comm’ was – a message written by prisoners on a cigarette paper and smuggled out on visits – because one or two reports in the local papers had described how the prisoners used them to communicate with the external leadership. But I had not appreciated the extraordinary number of them, or that the IRA had kept them. So I duly sent a message asking for access to the comms. I had been warned that I could only have a limited time with the material. I was then a fast touch-typist and my half-frozen fingers started flying over the little PX8 keyboard as I tried frantically to get it all down, verbatim. The chorus of the song introduces the idea of brotherhood, as the singer calls on "Brothers" to "walk tonight/Bearing the holy light." The seven men who are "dead by the side of the road" are referred to as if they were comrades, united in a cause that is never revealed. The second verse of the song continues this theme, with a reference to Jesus "preaching paradise," as "A million men [lie] dead on the sole of the earth." The sense of injustice and despair is palpable in these lines, as the singer seems to be mourning the loss of so many lives. a b c d e f g h i "The Hunger Strike of 1981 – A Chronology of Main Events". CAIN. Archived from the original on 31 May 2007 . Retrieved 26 May 2007.

a b O'Brien, Brendan (1995). The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Féin. Syracuse Univ Pr. p. 123. ISBN 0-8156-0319-3. Westminster By-election (NI) – Thursday 9 April 1981". CAIN. Archived from the original on 29 May 2007 . Retrieved 26 May 2007. The British press hailed the hunger strike as a triumph for Thatcher, with The Guardian newspaper stating "The Government had overcome the hunger strikes by a show of resolute determination not to be bullied". [49] At the time most thought the hunger strike a crushing defeat for the republicans, a view shared by many within the IRA and Sinn Féin, but Sands' by-election win was a propaganda victory, [2] and the hunger strike became a Pyrrhic victory for Thatcher and the British government. [50] [51] [52] Sands became a martyr to Irish republicans, [53] while Thatcher became a republican hate figure of Cromwellian proportions, with Danny Morrison describing her as "the biggest bastard we have ever known". [51]