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

Apr 10, 2009 - Hunger plays NWFF April 10-16 at 7, 9:15pm. Be wronged, or think Twenty three hunger strikers died – of those twenty-three, twelve were Irish hunger strikers in United Kingdom jails, including the ten who died in the 1981 strike. In an eight by ten foot cell in California, Todd Ashker is starving. On March 1st 1981, North Belfast born Republican, Bobby Sands began a tragic journey on behalf of his imprisoned comrades to gain Political Status for Irish With only their bodies as weapons, Republican and Socialist-Republican prisoners followed the path of the dozen Irish Political Prisoners who died on various Hunger-Strikes during other Irish Uprisings in the 20th Century. March 8, 2009 Film History Through “HUNGER,” the first feature film by the British artist Steve McQueen, recounts the final weeks of Bobby Sands, the imprisoned Irish nationalist who died in 1981, 66 days into a hunger strike. Aug 20, 2013 - “We are not in search of death; we are looking for real life.” — Tiananmen Square Hunger Strike Declaration, 1989. A Mural in Ardoyne Commemorating the Ten Hunger-Strikers. But the movie, which does not examine the arc of Sands's life or the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, is far from a conventional docudrama or issue movie. Apr 25, 2014 - An old and foolish custom, that if a man. Jan 15, 2014 - Her disgraceful decision to let ten IRA hunger strikers die in the H Blocks, in 1981, will always sully her name with the Irish worldwide, as will her hectoring attitude towards Irish people in general.