Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike

Published on the 25th anniversary of the ending of the hunger strike, well-known novelists and poets, former prisoners and activists reflect upon the deaths of the 10 Republican hunger strikers which proved a turning point in relations between Britain and Ireland.

History

Danny Morrison

Europe

Brandon Books

Well-known novelists and poets, former prisoners and activists reflect upon the deaths of the ten republican hunger strikers who died in protest to gain political prisoner status from the British government in Northern Ireland. Their deaths proved a turning point in relations between Britain and Ireland in the early 1980s. Most of the pieces here were specifically commissioned, and while they differ greatly, what they have in common is a sense of the intensity of the experience of the hunger strike at the time, and the intensity of the impression made by it even now.

This political novel explores the dilemmas of men - and women - on whom the times and the political circumstances of Northern Ireland have placed severe demands. IRA member Raymond Massey has spent seven years in prison in Long Kesh. When he is released he longs for a normal domestic life.

The wrong man

The Mercier Press Ltd

<p>In 1990, Danny Morrison was imprisoned in Crumlin Road Jail charged with conspiracy to murder, kidnapping and IRA membership. It was while he was incarcerated that he began to reflect on his own life, critically appraise the balances of forces in the Northern conflict and consider a way out of the political impasse. This book takes the form of a series of letters to his partner, to friends and to comrades - letters both open and smuggled - in which he describes the effect of imprisonment on himself and his fellow republicans. These letters are candid, sometimes deeply personal and often wryly humorous, creating a remarkable testimony to the variety of human experience under adverse conditions.</p>

Then the Walls Came Down: A Prison Journal

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Mercier Press

Danny Morrison was born in Belfast in 1953 and has written three novels - West Belfast (1989), On the Back of the Swallow (1994) and The Wrong Man (1997) - and a highly regarded autobiographical work, Then the Walls Came Down (1999). He lives in Belfast. The voices of the dead - speaking of their lives, their hopes and dreams - echo through this book. In vivid, tender, thought-provoking pieces, Danny Morrison celebrates the indomitable human spirit that sustains us through our darkest moments.The focus shifts from the tragic, long-drawn-out death of Danny's beloved sister to the violent killing of an IRA Volunteer, from the suicide of an unhappy, lonely woman in Belfast to the last days of a young Canadian soldier killed during the First World War.With sorrow but also with wry humour, Morrison evokes the presence of these dead and writes movingly of their lasting legacy - what he has learned from them about how to live, how to forgive and how to love.

All the Dead Voices

Biographies & Memoirs

Mad as I wanna be

Hodder Moa Beckett

<p>In this provocative selection of Danny Morrison's political commentaries, the former publicity director of Sinn Fein and ex-prisoner is at his sharpest, combining political anger with highly informative comment. On international situation he writes about the plight of the Palestinian nation, the war in Iraq, US and British foreign policy and military aggression, and the individuals, the poets, writers and freedom fighters who have stood up against injustice. He also analyses Ireland's political siutation.</p>

Rebel Columns

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Beyond the Pale Publications

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Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike

Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike

The wrong man

Then the Walls Came Down: A Prison Journal

All the Dead Voices

Mad as I wanna be

Rebel Columns