âÄúHunger ,âÄù which tells the story of the 1981 IRA hunger strikes of the Maze Prison through the eyes of its most famous participant, Bobby Sands. Sands died on May 5, 1981 after 66 days on hunger ...

BBC journalist Brian Walker describes Bobby Sands' journey from a Protestant housing estate to the Provisional IRA to leader of the second republican hunger strike at the Maze prison in Northern ...

Including: post-war austerity, IRA hunger strike death, war in Palestine, Tom Brown on the social and general strike, feudalism in Jersey, Stalinism and the British Communist Party, disavowal of ...

The Prime Minister has been accused of ignoring victims of the London Docklands bombing – as well as breaking commitments he ...

An infamous member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the conflict ... while imprisoned, for a 208-day hunger strike during which British guards force fed them to prevent ...

Seeking political prisoner status, IRA prisoners in Portlaoise Prison embarked on riots and then hunger strikes which were ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

A hunger strike against solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison became a massive feat of unity. Weaving together the personal stories of the men who bore the brunt of this practice ...

sisters who played vital roles in the Old Bailey bombing in London — the IRA’s first major attack in England during the Troubles — and whose hunger strike in prison became a defining episode ...