109: News Coverage of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikes Ep1-7 Pt 9-12

1 of 7 Episodes of the News Coverage of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikes at the Maze Prison (Long Kesh) just outside Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

These episodes of the news coverage cover the major events throughout the hunger strike months from local, national to worldwide news. For example some episodes will show the attempted assignation of the British Queen in London, and also the attempted assignation of the Pope (Pope John Paul II)
Not every moment of the episodes is the hunger strikes; some news coverage is also IRA bomb attacks, riots in Belfast Derry/Londonderry and other Northern Irelands towns, 1981 Northern Ireland Elections, the hunger strikers funerals, etc...

23 Hunger Strikers from the Irish Republican Army (The Provisional IRA) and the Irish National Liberation Army / Irish Republican Socialist Party (INLA/IRSP) took part in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikes Protest also known as The Blanket Protest, 10 volunteers from the IRA/PIRA and the INLA/IRSP died on the blanket protest and the remaining 13 had been forced to end it due to other illness and families interfering to call it off as the protest was approaching Christmas.

The Volunteers who Died,
Bobby Sands MP (IRA 66 Days), Francis Hughes (IRA 59 Days), Raymond McCreesh (IRA 61 Days), Patsy O'Hara (INLA 61 Days), Joe McDonnell (IRA 61 Days), Martin Hurson (IRA 46 Days), Kevin Lynch (INLA 71 Days), Kieran Doherty (IRA 73 Days), Thomas McIlwee (IRA 62 Days), Micky Devine (INLA 60 Days),
The Other Hunger Strikers,
Brendan McLaughlin (IRA 13 Days - Suffering from a perforated ulcer and internal bleeding)
Paddy Quinn (IRA 47 Days - Taken off by Family)
Laurence McKeown (IRA 70 Days - Taken off by Family)
Pat McGeown (IRA 42 Days - Taken off by Family)
Matt Devlin (IRA 52 Days - Taken off by Family)
Liam McCloskey (INLA 55 Days - His Family Said they would Intervene if he became unconscious)
Patrick Sheehan (IRA 55 Days - End of Hunger Strike)
Jackie McMullan (IRA 48 Days - End of Hunger Strike)
Bernard Fox (IRA 32 Days - Suffering from an Obstructed Kidney)
Hugh Carville (IRA 32 Days - End of Hunger Strike)
John Pickering (IRA 27 Days - End of Hunger Strike)
Gerard Hodgkins (IRA 20 Days - End of Hunger Strike)
James Devine (IRA 12 Days - End of Hunger Strike)

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[Flipper79able]

@topperheartramada You suck.

[johnsmith4442]

@banjaxed73 toijtihjhyh p5thjopyh h4y[y6h y5h u]]64

[topperheartramada]

@finnandcork Why would I give a moron an excuse to hurt me? I'll make fun of you where I'm safe from your mindless violence.

[finnandcork]

@topperheartramada fuck you , cuntox.....you'd never say that in a Belfast pub, here in NYC....you know why? Because youre a pud.

[topperheartramada]

What a stupid threat: Unless you do as I say, I'll starve myself to death. Wow, that really scared me. It's like the criminal surrounded in a building shouting: You'll never take me alive, copper! Dumb Irish morons. Never learn.

[banjaxed73]

Tá me gó moch n'éist noilhh go drontearchan du ciarr.

[richardaiken1]

@pimpUK1

Officers of British security forces even say that the IRA are not cowards. Now the S.A.S., they were afraid to take part in some operations during the Falklands War as they saw them as suicide missions.

[ggarlick46]

@GlynusRoach The only things she should have been in charge of was cleaning the local shithouse,then she would probably have fouled that up.

[Hellsconsort]

Thatcher didn't take shit. Take over of the Iranian embassy, terrorists hunger strikes, Falklands.

If only we had someone that nationalistic with the current legal invasion of immigration.

[GlynusRoach]

Mrs thatcher - a heroine to all. Awesome woman who should still be in charge now.