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Looks at the lives and motivations of Bobby Sands and the other 1981 IRA hunger strikers, and their families, and examines the effects of the ten deaths on the situation in Northern Ireland
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In March 1981, Bobby Sands began a hunger strike that led to his death 66 days later. One by one, nine other Irish Republicans followed him to their deaths as the whole world watched. O'Malley (senior associate, the John W. McCormack Institute, U. of Massachusetts at Boston) portrays the course of the hunger strikes and their meaning for the Irish people. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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