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  2. Category:People who died on hunger strike - Wikipedia

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    Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "People who died on hunger strike" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.

  3. List of hunger strikes - Wikipedia

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    Irish republicans all died while on hunger strike. Thomas Ashe (1917) Terence MacSwiney (1920 Cork hunger strike) Michael Fitzgerald (1920 Cork hunger strike) Joe Murphy (1920 Cork hunger strike) Denny Barry (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Andy O'Sullivan (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Joseph Whitty (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Tony D'Arcy (1940) Jack ...

  4. Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw - Wikipedia

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    She had been released after going on hunger strike and she was awarded a medal recording her hunger strike and the two periods of imprisonment. [1] Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw and her family setting out in their caravan to cross America to New York. She moved to Canada during the war and by 1918 she was living in Michigan. [2]

  5. Mitch Snyder - Wikipedia

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    Snyder grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, where at age 9 his father abandoned the family.After a stint in a correctional facility for breaking into parking meters, Snyder worked in job counseling on Madison Avenue in New York City, as well as selling appliances and construction work.

  6. Bobby Sands - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Irish Provisional IRA member (1954–1981) Bobby Sands MP Roibeárd Ó Seachnasaigh Sands in Long Kesh, 1973 (aged 18–19) Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone In office 9 April 1981 – 5 May 1981 Preceded by Frank Maguire Succeeded by Owen Carron Personal details Born ...

  7. Hunger strike - Wikipedia

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    After the end of the Irish Civil War in October 1923, up to 8,000 IRA prisoners went on hunger strike to protest their continued detention by the Irish Free State (a total of over 12,000 republicans had been interned by May 1923). [24] Three men, Denny Barry, Joseph Whitty, and Andy O'Sullivan, died during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes. The ...

  8. List of incidents of civil unrest in New York City - Wikipedia

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    1863 – New York City draft riots, 120 killed and 2,000 to 8,000 injured [9] [31] 1871 – Second New York City orange riot, more than 60 dead, more than 150 wounded [4] 1741 – New York Conspiracy, 35 total executed as a result [2] 1712 – New York Slave Revolt, 31 total deaths consisting of 9 killed in the revolt and 23 executed as a ...

  9. Becky Edelsohn - Wikipedia

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    Rebecca Edelsohn, in contemporary sources often given as Becky Edelson, (1892–1973) was a Latvian American anarchist and hunger striker who was jailed in 1914 for disorderly conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World speech. [1] [2] According to The New York Times, she was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States ...