Original sentence: In a war of nerves between the IRA leadership and the British government, with Sean McKenna close to death, the British government appeared to concede the prisoners' right to wear their own clothes
Edited sentence: (No Loyalists or Armagh women took part in the 1981 hunger strike.) In a war of nerves between the IRA leadership and the British government, with Sean McKenna close to death, the British government appeared to concede the prisoners' right to wear their own clothes.A number of Loyalist prisoners also started their own hunger strike after a few weeks, but they were accused of opportunism, attempting to win concessions on the backs of republicans without risking death or serious damage to their health