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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.
Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze's prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike, aged 27. [38] The original pathologist's report recorded the hunger strikers' causes of death as "self-imposed starvation", amended to simply "starvation" following protests by the dead strikers' families.
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 ...
On February 23, 2010, Orlando Zapata, a dissident arrested in 2003 as part of a crackdown on opposition groups, died in a hospital while undertaking a hunger strike that had been ongoing for 85 days. His hunger strike was a protest against poor prison conditions. Amnesty International had declared him a prisoner of conscience. [40]
A hunger strike memorial near Crossmaglen, County Armagh. A memorial to the men who died in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Easter Rising, and the hunger strike stands in Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, Australia, which is also the burial place of Michael Dwyer of the Society of United Irishmen. [277]
Patsy O'Hara (Irish: Peatsaí Ó hEadhra; 11 July 1957 – 21 May 1981 [1]) was an Irish republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). O'Hara was one of 22 Irish republicans (in the 20th century) who died on hunger strike. [2] Memorial to 22 Irish Hunger Strikers Deaths Glasnevin Cemetery
Frank Stagg (Irish: Proinsias Stagg; [2] 4 October 1941 – 12 February 1976) was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker from County Mayo, Ireland who died in 1976 in Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, England after 62 days on hunger strike. [3]
His hunger strike began on 15 March 1981, [14] two weeks after Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. He was also the second striker to die, at 5:43pm BST on 12 May, after 59 days without food. [15] His death led to an upsurge in rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland. His cousin Thomas McElwee was the ninth