TY - BOOK ID - 77898315 TI - Hunger strike : Margaret Thatcher's battle with the IRA, 1980-1981 PY - 2014 SN - 0716532425 0716532239 9780716532231 0716531763 9780716531760 PB - Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981. KW - IRA Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981 KW - Hunger strikes KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland KW - Politics and government KW - Foreign relations KW - Thatcher, Margaret. KW - Thatcher, Margaret KW - Roberts, Margaret Hilda KW - She-chʻi-erh, Ma-ko-li-tʻe KW - Tėtcher, M. KW - Tėtcher, Margaret Khilʹda UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77898315 AB - The hunger strikes of 1980-81 were a confrontation between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the iron will of Irish republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, in an attempt to break the British policy of criminalising paramilitary prisoners. The prisoners' ultimate demand, to be granted a 'special category status' that distinguished them from other prisoners, led to two hunger strikes. The first, in 1980, ended without success for the prisoners; the second, led by Bobby Sands, resulted in ten prisoners starving themselves to death. The ER -