One of their main aims was to be looked at as political prisoners and not criminal prisoners. That was a big ongoing thread throughout all this, starting with the suffragists and then all the way into the eighties with the modern i r a. And we should also point out, toe at another similarity that they had with these original, early 19 hundred suffragists with their hunger strikes. It's hard to think o like, what kind of an awful death after you're already starving yourself, you'r right?
In the early 1980s, imprisoned IRA members went on a prolonged hunger strike, leading to the death of ten men. This is their story.
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