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Blanketmen : an untold story of the H-block hunger strike / Richard O'Rawe.

Title
Blanketmen : an untold story of the H-block hunger strike / Richard O'Rawe.
Author
O'Rawe, Richard
Publication
Dublin : New Island, 2005.

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Description
261 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. Now O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA Army Council and the prisoners themselves. Passionate, disturbing and controversial, Blanketmen is a landmark book in the cruel history of Northern Ireland." -- Back cover.
Subject
  • O'Rawe, Richard
  • Long Kesh (Prison)
  • Political prisoners > Northern Ireland > Biography
  • Hunger strikes > Northern Ireland
  • Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981
  • Prisons > Northern Ireland
  • Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-261).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1904301673
  • 9781904301677
LCCN
^^2005415867
OCLC
  • 61688191
  • SCSB-11507486
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library