The Hunger Strikes

Chronology of events around the IRA hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981

The Hunger Strikes

Election leaflet in support of Bobby Sands during the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election during the H-Blocks Hunger Strike.

Bobby Sands election Leaflet

Irish Times article

The Ballot Box and the Armalite

Part of an RTE documentary on the hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in the H-Blocks in 1981

Election Address by Owen Carron following his election to replace Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh/South Tyrone during the hunger strikes