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Published by Lagan Press, 2006, hardcover , with central section of photographs , bumps to lower corners.
the hunger strikes of 1980/81 are often said to have changed the course of Northern Ireland's history.
Republican prisoners were fasting for the right to be recognised as political prisoners. The British government, led by Margaret Thatcher, refused acknowledgement. A titanic battle of wills ensued. Bobby Sands, the most famous hunger striker globally has streets named after him in France and Iran. More than 100,000 people attended his funeral, dispelling the myth that the IRA had no constituency worth addressing. Sands legacy is compounded by the fact that he was elected to the British parliament by the voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981, at the height of the hunger strikes.
All shades of opinion and viewpoints on the Hunger Strikes have been collected together in the same book, and woven together with an extremely well sourced narrative.
