Research Catalog

Title

Pawns in the game : Irish hunger strikes 1912-1981 / Barry Flynn.

Author

Flynn, Barry

Publication

Wilton, Cork : Collins Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

x, 278 pages; 20 cm

Summary

Between 1917 and 1981, 22 Irishmen died on hunger strike. It was adopted as a protest of last resort by republican prisoners in the early 20th century. This book is not just a portrait of those who died but also explores the political circumstances of their strikes the pressure they felt and the pain and suffering of family and friends.

Alternative Title

Irish hunger strikes 1912-1981

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Political prisoners > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century
• Hunger strikes > Ireland > History > 20th century
• Irish question
• Prisonniers politiques > Irlande du Nord > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Grèves de la faim > Irlande > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Question irlandaise
• Hunger strikes
• Irish question
• Political prisoners
• Politics and government
• Ireland > Politics and government > 20th century
• Ireland > History > 20th century
• Irlande > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle
• Irlande > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Ireland
• Northern Ireland

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. game of cat and mouse -- 2. Thomas Ashe: death by force-feeding -- 3. Terence MacSwiney: a means to a bitter end -- 4. Hatred, pain and hunger: 1922 and 1923 -- 5. De Valera: poacher turns gamekeeper -- 6. Sean McCaughey: If you had a dog... -- 7. Short-term gain, long-term pain -- 8. Take me home to Mayo -- 9. Frank Stagg: death and humiliation -- 10. Beating the terrorists? -- 11. 1981: It's gonna happen -- 12. Diplomacy and duplicity -- 13. Intervention and disintegration.

ISBN

• 1848891164
• 9781848891166

LCCN

2010681016

OCLC

• 698587009
• SCSB-11365876

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library