On the Blanket
Irish journalist Coogan's 1980 volume follows the story of the "H Block" protest waged by IRA prisoners trying to bring attention to the brutality of the British and the ongoing clash between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland. Dubbed the "dirty" protest, the action involved prisoners slathering the walls of their tiny cells with their own excrement and hunger strikes that resulted in several deaths. This book chronicles it all in unrelenting detail; a real eye-opener.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.