Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike David Beresford
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Oct 2, 2005 - Today is the last day of my fast in support of the ten men who died in 1981 in the Irish Hunger Strikes. Ten men died as Thatcher publicly refused to yield. May 24, 2007 - Ten Dead Men tells the story of the 1981 hunger strike by IRA members imprisoned in the now infamous Maze Prison (known as Long Kesh to the Republicans). Aug 20, 2013 - “We are not in search of death; we are looking for real life.” — Tiananmen Square Hunger Strike Declaration, 1989. Finally, when it became clear that the families of the remaining strikers would intervene(干預，介入) when they lost consciousness, the strike ended on Oct. In an eight by ten foot cell in California, Todd Ashker is starving. Oct 22, 2009 - In today's Irish News, former hunger striker Bernard Fox says the matter should be laid to rest out of respect for the families, while Richard O'Rawe and Tony O'Hara seek answers. Much of Ireland's identity is steeped in its history. The British government had In total, ten men died during the strike before it was called off. As stated in my post for Back Home in Derry, Irish prisoners in HM Prison Maze staged a Hunger Strike in 1981 demanding political prisoner status from the British government, then headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Throughout the centuries, the Irish have captured this history in song. May 12, 2012 - Throughout Khader's hunger strike, he was compared to Bobby Sands, the first of ten men to die in the Hunger Strike of 1981. Maze (or Long Kesh) prison from 1980-1981. Jan 31, 2008 - Ireland: Land of Song. In many obituaries( 訃聞) published today(Apr 9, 2013), the story goes that Thatcher "faced down" Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, as the BBC put it. Jan 15, 2014 - Her disgraceful decision to let ten IRA hunger strikers die in the H Blocks, in 1981, will always sully her name with the Irish worldwide, as will her hectoring attitude towards Irish people in general. Forever, the 2 men Ireland has a long history of the use of a hunger strike as a form of protest.