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#OnThisDay 1st of March 1981, hunger strikes began when Bobby Sands started refusing food. A total of ten people died before the strike ended in October.
On This Day, 1st March
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New document:
"19 Arrests - Campaign Will Not Be Intimidated!"
Armagh/H-Block News, Vol. 1, No. 5, 19th September 1981, from the Armagh/H-Block Action Group.
Active during the 1980/1 Hunger Strikes, the group was associated with the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6288/
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Armagh/H-Block News, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1981) — Armagh/H-Block Action Group
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You'll find Vincent's election leaflet as a Hunger Strikes candidate in the 1981 general election in the archive.
Make H-Block the Issue! Vote Doherty No. 1 (1981) — National H-Block / Armagh Committee
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