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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Maze Prison IRA escapee and senior Sinn Féin member Brendan ... PIRA’s commanding officer in the Maze Prison during ...