Afterlives
Subtitle: the hunger strike and the secret offer that changed Irish history
By: Richard O'Rawe ; foreword by Ed Moloney
Contributors: Moloney, Ed, 1948-
Publisher: Lilliput
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781843511847
Subjects: Politics and government; Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981; Political prisoners
Description: By July 1981 four republican hunger strikers had already died in Long Kesh Prison. A fifth, Joe McDonnell, was clinging to life. To outsiders, Margaret Thatcher appeared unbending; yet far from the prying eyes of the press, her government was making a substantial offer to the prisoners. This is an untold story of the hunger strikers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-220) and index.