On Sunday 1st March 1981, IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. On the 10th anniversary of his death Bik McFarlane dedicated this song to Bobby's memory. 🏴 | Gerry Adams

On this day, Terence MacSwiney passed after 74 days on hunger strike https://davyholdenhistory.com/ #irish #ireland #history | Davy Holden Music

2.6K views · 116 reactions | Confirmed hunger strike deaths in prison are extremely rare across UK history, around 12–13, with the vast majority from the 20th-century Irish republican protests. These people are yet to face trial! How far is the British state prepared to go against its own people, in support of a rogue foreign state? | The Daily Politik | Facebook

153K views · 4K reactions | On this day in 1980, republican prisoners in the H-Blocks and Armagh Gaol embarked on a hunger strike for their right to be recognised as political prisoners. Listen as hunger strikers, Raymond McCartney and Mary Doyle, narrate the story. "We are political prisoners" | Sinn Féin Ireland | Facebook