It depends on which side you're on and whether or not you believe it was an effective thing. But i think there were probably a lot of, i too, that saw it as a defeat because they weren't officially recognized as such. And we should say, going on outside the prison gates, an in northern ireland, throughout this time, are car bombing, assassinations, protests, riots.
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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