Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

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This is passionate genre filmmaking inspired by… Rodriguez and the hard-hitting but playful style of Quentin Tarantino" O'Keeffe, Terence (1984). "Suicide and Self-Starvation". Philosophy. 59 (229): 349–363. doi: 10.1017/S0031819100069941. JSTOR 3750951. S2CID 154281192. a b O'Hearn, Denis (2006). Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song. Pluto Press. p.377. ISBN 0-7453-2572-6. Although ten men died during the course of the hunger strike, thirteen others began refusing food but were taken off hunger strike, either due to medical reasons or after intervention by their families. Many of them still suffer from the effects of the strike, with problems including digestive, visual, physical and neurological disabilities. [45] [46] Name

a b c d Beresford, David (1987). Ten Men Dead. Atlantic Monthly Press. pp.13–16. ISBN 0-87113-702-X. I.R.A. Asserts Fast Will Continue at Prison". The New York Times. 28 September 1981 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. McCaffrey, Steven (12 March 2005). "Former comrades' war of words over hunger strike". The Irish News. Archived from the original on 22 March 2018 . Retrieved 26 May 2007. Whyte, Nicholas (25 March 2003). "Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1973–1982". Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive. Archived from the original on 7 June 2007 . Retrieved 26 May 2007.urn:oclc:26012164 Republisher_date 20120407030511 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120406200837 Scanner scribe17.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) The final lines of each verse, "It's such a shame/But it has always been the same," provide a commentary on the human condition. The idea that we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes, generation after generation, is a powerful one, and it is expressed with a simple, almost resigned, tone. Overall, the lyrics of "Ten Men Dead" are thoughtful and thought-provoking, and they invite reflection on the nature of violence and human suffering. In the two weeks following Sands' death, three more hunger strikers died. Francis Hughes died on 12 May, resulting in further rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland, in particular Derry and Belfast. Following the deaths of Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara on 21 May, Tomás Ó Fiaich, by then Primate of All Ireland, criticised the British government's handling of the hunger strike. [1] Despite this, Thatcher continued to refuse to negotiate a settlement, stating "Faced with the failure of their discredited cause, the men of violence have chosen in recent months to play what may well be their last card", during a visit to Belfast in late May. [30]

Ultimately this book is just so tragic. You feel like you get such an up-close sense of all the hunger strikers, only to watch them waste away just as their families, loved ones, comrades, jailers, and the British government did. Anyways - I’ll let some of Beresford’s own words take up the rest of this review. The song's lyrics and music create a sense of tension and unease, with a thudding beat and atmospheric synthesizers. Hailing from a land similarly rife with sectarian divisions (South Africa), the author David Beresford, a writer for the Guardian newsletter, succeeds fully in squarely illustrating the complicated temperament of conflict that led ten men to willingly starve themselves to death in a prison protest. Not once does the discussion lapse into blunt politics, instead always taking the high ground and focusing on the more personal nature of the struggle and its larger overtones of humanity.

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. On one occasion he wrote an editorial saying that Mandela should stand down at the end of his term as president, from 1994 to 1999. He noted later that when asked why he had done just that, Mandela replied with a mischievous grin: “Because the Mail & Guardian told me to.” The hunger strike prompted Sinn Féin to move towards electoral politics. Sands' election victory, combined with that of pro-hunger strike candidates in the Northern Ireland local elections and Dáil elections in the Republic of Ireland, gave birth to the Armalite and ballot box strategy. Gerry Adams remarked that Sands' victory "exposed the lie that the hunger strikers—and by extension the IRA and the whole republican movement—had no popular support". [56] The election victories of Doherty and Agnew also had political impact in the Republic of Ireland, as they denied power to Charles Haughey's outgoing Fianna Fáil government. [31] In 1982 Sinn Féin won five seats in the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, and in 1983 Gerry Adams won a seat in the UK general election. [57] As a result of the political base built during the hunger strike, Sinn Féin continued to grow in the following two decades. [3] After the 2001 United Kingdom general election, it became the largest nationalist party in Northern Ireland. After dropping out of his English and law degree course at the University of Cape Town, he was a reluctant office worker, but then turned to journalism, with the Salisbury Herald and Cape Town Herald. Like many of his friends, in the mid-1970s he moved to Britain. His first job in the UK was with the South Wales Echo, and he also worked for the Argus group in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, before joining the Guardian.

White, Robert (2017). Out of the Ashes: An Oral History of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement. Merrion Press. p.173. ISBN 9781785370939.Whelan, Peadar (21 March 2001). "Hunger strike exhibition launched". An Phoblacht. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007 . Retrieved 1 June 2007.



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