Margaret Thatcher Ira Hunger Strike
The book provides only a limited analysis of the hunger strike but is an invaluable guide to the archives for those who will do the analytical work in the coming years.
Margaret thatcher ira hunger strike. The 1981 irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five year protest during the troubles by irish republican prisoners in northern ireland. In 1980 seven prisoners participated in the fi. Margaret thatchers secret admiration for ira hunger strikers when ira prisoners threatened to starve themselves to death if they were not recognised as political prisoners baroness thatchers.
In 1978 the dispute escalated into the dirty protest where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. 1980 81 were a confrontation between british prime minister margaret thatcher and the iron will of. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976 when the british government withdrew special category status for convicted paramilitary prisoners.
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