Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike David Beresford
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Oct 31, 2009 - Pete Brook at Prison Photography recently posted this photo of the 10 men who died during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. By Barry McNally By this time ten men had died on the hunger strike and a number of other men were on various stages of the hunger strike. Yet hunger striking has a long history in Irish political culture. May 6, 2008 - Ógras Barry McNally writes a personal account of the Hunger Strike which seen the deaths of ten young Irish Republicans who gave their lives for the freedom of Ireland. Nov 5, 2012 - The hunger strikes of 1980/1981, in which ten men including Bobby Sands died, are the most famous use of that political weapon. In many obituaries( 訃聞) published today(Apr 9, 2013), the story goes that Thatcher "faced down" Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, as the BBC put it. Finally, when it became clear that the families of the remaining strikers would intervene(干預，介入) when they lost consciousness, the strike ended on Oct. Maze (or Long Kesh) prison from 1980-1981. In an eight by ten foot cell in California, Todd Ashker is starving. Some slipping in and out of We all know the story of the first blanket man Kieran Nugent and the path which the Blanket protest took. To much critical acclaim Steve McQueen has retold the story on the big screen. One by one, ten young men embarked on the agonizing protest of hunger strike until death to secure the basic human rights and dignity of Political Status for all Irish Republican Political Prisoners. Aug 18, 2008 - In 1981, ten men sacrificed their lives for the freedoms of many; in a hunger strike at the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison, Occupied North of Ireland. Aug 20, 2013 - “We are not in search of death; we are looking for real life.” — Tiananmen Square Hunger Strike Declaration, 1989. Ten men died as Thatcher publicly refused to yield.