Dublin, 1 November 1919 - Ernest Blythe, the Sinn ... hunger strike. He was protesting against three things: firstly, the fact that he is not being treated as a political prisoner; secondly, that ...

Paramilitary prisoners had been held in 'long huts' there during ... second hunger strike. Four days after the strike began, the MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone died suddenly. Sinn Fein, a ...

KEY MEMBERS OF Sinn Féin will attend Brendan ‘Bik ... McFarlane was the leader of IRA prisoners in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strike, when he was serving a life sentence for ...

Former Maze Prison IRA escapee and senior Sinn Féin member Brendan ... PIRA’s commanding officer in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Hunger Strike, and took part in the escape from the ...

The imprisonment and three-week hunger strike of Mary MacSwiney ... She was one of six female Sinn Féin TDs in the Dáil in 1921, all of whom voted against the Treaty. A teacher, experienced ...