Hunger Strike
Author: Thomas Hennessey
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 0716532425
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Refusal to Eat
Author: Nayan Shah
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-01-04
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0520302699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this enormously ambitious but concise book, Nayan Shah observes how hunger striking stretches and recasts to turn a personal agony into a collective social agony in conflicts and contexts all around the world, laying out a remarkable number of case studies over the last century and more. From suffragettes in Britain and the US in the early twentieth century to Irish political prisoners, Bengali prisoners, and detainees at post-9/11 Guantánamo Bay; from Japanese Americans in US internment camps to conscientious objectors in the 1960s; from South Africans fighting apartheid to asylum seekers in Australia and Papua New Guinea, Shah shows the importance of context for each case and the interventions the protesters faced. The power that hunger striking unleashes is volatile, unmooring all previous resolves, certainties, and structures and forcing supporters and opponents alike to respond in new ways. .
Ten Men Dead
Author: David Beresford
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780871137029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses.
The Hunger Strikes
Author: R. K. Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781904684206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepublican prisoners were fasting for the right to be recognised as political prisoners. The British government, led by Margaret Thatcher, refused acknowledgement. Bobby Sands, the most famous hunger striker, globally has streets named after him in France and Iran. More than 100,000 people attended his funeral, dispelling the myth that the IRA had no constituency worth addressing. Sands legacy is compounded by the fact that he was elected to the British parliament by the voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in April 1981, at the height of the hunger strikes. Never before all shades of Green, Orange and British opinion on the Hunger Strikes have been collected together in the same book.
Starving for Justice
Author: Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-03-21
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0816532583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on three hunger strikes occurring on university campuses in California in the 1990s, Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval examines people's willingness to make the extreme sacrifice and give their lives in order to create a more just society.
Writings From Prison
Author: Bobby Sands Trust
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1781171106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.
Hunger Strike
Author: Susie Orbach
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0429914660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusie Orbach is a psychotherapist arid writer. With Luise Eichenbaum she co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976 and in 1981 The Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. She lectures extensively in Europe and North America, is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organizations. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, as well as to radio and television programmes. Her other books on eating problems are Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978), Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982) and On Eating (2002). With Luise Eichenbaum she has written Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Account (1982), What do Women Want (1983) and Between Women (1988). She is also the author of What's Really Going on Here (1993), Towards Emotional Literacy (1999) and The Impossibility of Sex (1999).
Biting at the Grave
Author: Padraig O'Malley
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1991-10-31
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780807002094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Blanketmen
Author: Richard O'Rawe
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848405547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inside account of the H-Blocks hunger strike of the early 1980s.
Political Self-Sacrifice
Author: K. M. Fierke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107029236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.
