Hunger strikes

Hunger strikes, 1980-81

Resources collected for GCSE coursework at Parkside Community Comprehensive School,

Crook, Co. Durham.

1. Tasks previously set	4. British government	7. International
2. Teaching aids	5. Hunger strikers	8. Commemorating
3. Reference	6. Ulster Unionists	9. Web sites

1. Tasks previously set

Textbooks

Colourpoint Books Timeline Activity

New - 31/01/2008

1. pdf version 2. PowerPoint

Urmston GS

BBCNI A State Apart Task 4

2. Teaching aids

Hunger Strikers: Criminals or Prisoners of War? (Ppt)

Hunger Strikes in Pictures

1. Slideshow (Ppt)

2. jpg files

http://irelandinschools.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album27

Hunger Strikes: Posters
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/posters/hstrike/index.html

Murals

1. Slideshow (Ppt)

2. jpg files

http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.jsp?PageNbr=1&MemberId=3280192026&PhotoAlbumId=3335164037&PhotoId=3335169518

The Bogside Artists

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/bogsideartists/menu.htm

3. Reference

T. Fraser - the best succinct account

'The Hunger Strikes & Their Consequences'

Overview

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike

Special Category Status

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Category_Status

P. Taylor

Why Was the Hunger Strike Not Settled in July 1981 Once Six Men Had Died and the Substance of the Five Demands Seemed to be on Offer?

Why Did the Hunger Strikes Come to an End on 3 October 1981?

The Dead

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/dead.htm

Hunger Strikes: Chronology

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/chronology.htm
Hunger Strikes: Summary & Significance

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/summary.htm

Hunger Strikes: Posters

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/posters/hstrike/index.html

http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbum.jsp?PhotoNbr=1&MemberId=3280192026&PhotoAlbumId=3281428417

Ten Men Dead, Chapter 3

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/beresford.htm

Armalite and Ballot Box Strategy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armalite_and_ballot_box_strategy

Bobby Sands Elected MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, 10 April 1981- video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7AR-uDmu0

'Rosaries & Petrol Bombs': Reactions to the Death of Bobby Sands- video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGKppV9S_2k

BBC (*with tantalising links to video clips and sound files which do not work very often)

Dirty Protest*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/dirty_protest.stm

Overview *

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/hunger_strike.stm

Prison Protest*

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/themes/prison_protest.stm

History of the Maze Prison
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/northern_ireland/2000/maze_prison/default.stm

4. British opinion

British Government

Ministers & Officials

Margaret Thatcher Denies Political Status

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2582601761676462315

Daily Express Cartoon, 1981

PIRA Revenge: Brighton Bomb, 1984

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2531000/2531583.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Slideshow/slideshowContentFrameFrag.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/12/brighton/upixbrighton.xml

Brighton Bomber

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/301223.stm

5. Hunger strikers

Five Demands

http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/5demands.html

Statement at Start of Second Hunger Strike, 1 March 1981

http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/81statement_start.html

Statement at End of Second Hunger Strike, 4 October 1981

http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/81statement_end.html

Bobby Sands: Prison Diary

http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/diary.html

Bobby Sands: Prison Poems
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/sands/sands81.htm

A Survivor Remembers: Laurence McKeown

H-block Song
http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/hblocksong.html

Scenes from the Funerals
http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/funerals

6. Ulster Unionist/Loyalist views

Peter Robinson (DUP), Self-Inflicted: An Exposure of the H-Blocks Issues

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/docs/robinson.htm

FAIR, Ten Criminals

http://www.victims.org.uk/tencriminals.pdf

'starve u bastard'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9g2wPlYUek

Bobby Sands: The Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5FpvgqGKV0

7. International responses

Violence Erupts in Dublin at Irish Hunger Strike Protest, 18 July 1981

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/18/newsid_2514000/2514727.stm

The 1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/exhibits01.htm#hunger

NORAID Fundraising Rally, 1981

8. Commemorating the Hunger strikers - video clips

Blanketmen, Dirty Protest, and H3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L965m4GB55c

1981 Hunger Strikers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00P9v0xflz4

Remembering the 1981 Hunger Strikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uyTI7q0Kw
Song for Marcella - the name under which Bobby Sand wrote for a republican newspaper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXdaEihEyUc

bobby sands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLQfcde18U
The Death of Bobby Sands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucN3R8vvR8I
The Ballad of Bobby Sands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosHY15j_3c
Sad song for Susan - written by Bobby Sands whilst in the H Blocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG-x9A0OGAc

9. Web sites

Bobby Sands Trust
http://www.bobbysandstrust.org
Camloch 1981 Hunger Strike Committee
http://www.raymondmccreesh.8k.com/index.html
Hunger Strike 20th Anniversary 1981-2001
http://www.hungerstrike81.com
The Irish Hunger Strikes: A Commemorative Project
http://www.larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes

Hunger Strikes

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3280192026

Overview - with tantalising links to video clips and sound files that do not work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/events/hunger_strike.stm

The 1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/exhibits01.htm#hunger

The Hunger Strike of 1981
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike

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