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[David Beresford] ☆ Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses.. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals.Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisone
| Title | : | Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (930 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087113702X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
"Outstanding book on the Irish Hunger Strike" according to SouthernTransplant. Outstanding book, a classic. Excellent writing and fascinating information using special access to secret documents. If you're interested in the Irish Hunger strike and the politics around them, this is the book for you.. Alan Mills said A Must Read for anyone involved in social protest. Social protest takes many forms. Some simply write letters. Some picket, or go on strike, risking their jobs. Some even go on a hunger strike for a few days.The ten members of the IRA whose story is told (in incredibly moving detail) in this book take social protest to a level most of us are not familiar with. They quite literally agreed. "Comms" a powerful testament This is a great book, made so by the author's plentiful use of the prisoners' "comms." These were messages to the outside world written in tiny handwriting on pieces of cigarette paper and then smuggled in and out of the prison in various bodily orifices. This book certainly opened my eyes to just how much can be jammed up the back door
In the final compelling words of Beresford, "They died for a cause more ancient than the gray walls of Long Kesh prison." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Written by a reporter who covered the story for The Guardian , the book is shaped around secret communications, scraps of cigarette paper which the prisoners wrote on and concealed in bodily orifices until the messages could be smuggled outside to the IRA leadership. These "comms" are intimate, meticulous records of the men who went first "on the blanket" in naked protest, then to their self-scheduled deaths. From Publishers Weekly Taken inside infamous Long Kesh prison in Belfast, the reader of this searing journal e
An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses.. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals.Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfas
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