Unbowed Unbroken
Barry Curran for NvTv
Irish Republicans Danny Morrison, Pat Sheehan, and Brendan McFarlane gather at a book launch (Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike) to give their accounts of one of the most remarkable prison protests in history – that which occurred in the H-Blocks at Long kesh and which resulted in the deaths of 10 men on hunger strike.
Unbowed Unbroken
Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Hunger Strike
edited by Danny Morrison, contributions from Edna O’Brien, Tony Benn, Ken Loach, Christy Moore and many more.
Well-known novelists and poets, former prisoners and activists reflect upon the deaths of the ten republican hunger strikers which proved a turning point in relations between Britain and Ireland. Most of the pieces here were specially 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, twenty-five years later.
The book is published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ending of the hunger strike.
