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   1981 Irish hunger strike

   The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners.
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   Hunger strike

   A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. ... 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
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   Artistic reactions to the 1981 Irish hunger strike

   Between the 1 March 1976 and the 3 October 1981 Irish Republican prisoners in HM Prison Maze carried out a variety of protests against the withdrawal of Special Category Status for prisoners convicted of proscribed "terrorism" offences. These protests culminated in the 1981 Irish hunger strike in which ten prisoners died.
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   Paddy Quinn (Irish republican)

   Patrick Quinn (Irish: Pádraic Ó Cuinn) (born, 1962, Belleeks, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) was a volunteer with the 1st Battalion, South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
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   Category:People who died on the 1981 Irish hunger strike

   People who died on hunger strike Irish republicans imprisoned on charges of terrorism
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   Kevin Lynch (hunger striker)

   Kevin Lynch (Irish name: Caoimhín Ó Loingsigh; 25 May 1956 - 1 August 1981) was an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. ... He got involved in the blanket protest and joined the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike on 23 May 1981 and died 71 days later.
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   Michael Devine (hunger striker)

   Michael James "Mickey" Devine (Irish name: Mícheál Ó Duibhinn; (26 May 1954–21 August 1981) was a volunteer of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) who died on the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
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   Bernard Fox (Irish republican)

   Bernard Fox (born c. 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former member of the Army Council of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Fox, an apprentice coach builder from the Falls Road in Belfast joined the IRA in 1969 aged eighteen.
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   Bobby Sands

   Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh), commonly known as Bobby Sands, (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981), was an Irish volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh). ... Main article: Artistic reactions to the 1981 Irish hunger strike
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    List of members of the Irish Republican Army

    This is a list of members of the Irish Republican Army. ... Bobby Sands (1954-1981), a member of the Provisional IRA later elected as a Member of Parliament during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike at Long Kesh.

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