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The Hunger Strikes Materials relating to the Hunger Strikes of 1980/1 in the archive. On this, the 35th anniversary of the Hunger…
Hunger Strike Bulletin _Hunger Strike Bulletin_ was issued by the Irish Republican Socialist Party during the 1980-1 hunger strikes by Republican prisoners….
… when it was actually an IRSP bookshop/office. It was a centre for the anti-H-Block campaign during the hunger strikes and was later used by the Release Nicky Kelly Campaign. In its early years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, public meetings were…
… immediately before and after the election has seen a sharp up-turn in the class struggle, significant strikes – by civil servants, teachers, Telecom workers, in the shipyard, in Shorts, the meat plants and in other workplaces – have taken… the rationale behind the Anglo-Irish Agreement which suggests that: Thatcher’s handling of the 1981 hunger strikes won her government a pyrrhic victory. The prisoners were defeated but at the cost of the alienation of the Catholic population….
… in the summer of 1980, to research my PhD thesis on the origins of the civil rights movement. This was just before the Hunger Strikes started, and I lived on the Lower Ormeau Road. What I learned confirmed and deepened my commitment to the politics of…
… for Vincent Doherty of People’s Democracy and a member of the National H-Block/Armagh Committee. At this point four hunger strikers had died and the fact of the forthcoming election allowed for an opportunity to make the case of the hunger… from her in support of Doherty’s candidacy. Election - General Election, 1981 People - Vincent Doherty Event - Hunger Strikes, 1980/81…
… the National H-Block/Armagh Committee. It argues that British Renege on agreements and announces the commencement of a new hunger strike starting March 1st. It outlines the history of the previous hunger strike and the negotiations that led to this point. It also calls for significant support. Event - Hunger Strikes, 1980/81…
… Doherty, in response to [a letter from Noël Browne](/document/2080) in the _Irish Press_ from 1981, added as part of our [Hunger Strikes collection](/collection/2077/). Vincent Doherty…
SDLP Non-Runner [Letter] Irish Press A letter from Noël Browne in the _Irish Press_ from 1981, added as part of our [Hunger Strikes collection](/collection/2077/), along with a [response from Vincent Doherty](/document/2082). Noël Browne…
Hunger Strike Bulletin, No. 1 Irish Republican Socialist Party Hunger Strike Bulletin A document from the Irish Republican… he was a former member of the OIRA and later INLA member.As significant is the concentration on the first wave of hunger strikes that year, where one member of the INLA, John Nixon participated. He is, given first place in this document although…
… train robbery and after numerous years in prison eventually released and more recently a Labour party candidate] 38 day hunger strike in 1983 which charts the broad spread of the campaign for his release. This is not explicitly badged as belonging to…
… document, donated by Jim Monaghan for which many thanks, is undated but from the text written before the first death of an hunger striker. It provides a useful contrast with that from last week. Produced by Peoples Democracy, this considers the genesis of the hunger strikes and provides a useful analysis of the political circumstances within which they developed. It is positioned in an…
New Years' Draw Raffle Ticket Éirígí New Years Draw1st. Copper Republican Artwork 2nd. Complete set of hunger striker badges 3rd. "In defence of the Republic" hoodie This is a raffle ticket for an Éirígí New Years' draw in 2019.As always…
Hunger Strike Bulletin, No. 2 Irish Republican Socialist Party Hunger Strike Bulletin Many thanks to the person who forwarded this to the Archive.This document issued during the 1980 Hunger Strikes includes messages from John Nixon, an history of hunger strikes and an outline of the response to the then current…
… it was a specific RS production.That said its scope is fairly wide with a range of pieces dealing with issues from the hunger strikes (this edition went to press just before Joe McDonnell died), Bob Marley through to Dioxin (which conceptually links in…
… Party of Labour of Albania.Red Patriot contains a varied selection of articles, leading with commemorations of the H-Block hunger strikes, one year on from the deaths of the hunger strikers. The article notes that "No one who fights for Irish freedom can…
… Autumn 1981 Sinn Féin The Workers' Party Ireland This is a notable document, published as it was at the height of the Hunger Strikes in the North and it clearly exemplifies the attitude of SFWP towards them and towards Provisional Sinn Féin. It's…
… to the death of Frank Stagg, 'Unfortunately the massive crowd at the funeral doesn't mean much. The death of a hunger striker is a very emotive issue and the ghoulish behaviour of the Dublin Government made it more emotive still. The emotion…
Venceremos, Vol. 1, No. 1 Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement Venceremos This document dating from 1981 at the height of the Hunger Strikes was issued by the Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement, youth organisation of the Irish Republican Socialist Party . The…
… document from 1981 from the League for a Workers Republic is first and foremost concentrated on the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike. It joins this document from the LWR published a few years later. At that point the LWR was the Irish… calls for the ‘British Ambassador Out!’. It also argues that ‘now is the time for continuous stoppages, for strikes and demonstrations, for a general strike to force Thatcher to concede and to save the other hunger strikers’. And it continues: …