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Thomas McElwee, IRA prisoner on hunger strike, dies in prison Maze

43
years ago

08 August 1981,

Thomas McElwee, a IRA prisoner on hunger strike, died in Maze prison. McElweek was 23 years old and spent 62 days without eating. In 1976, the Thatcher Government seized the political status of the Republican prisoners and the prisoners engaged in several fights, such as the protest of the mantas or the collective hunger strike. That hunger strike was famous in Ireland, and every ten days a prisoner joined indefinite forgiveness. McElwee was the ninth first to die on the Gose collective strike.

Source:

Wikipedia – 1981 Irish hunger strike.

On this day
1897Angiolillo kills Spanish President Cánovas del Castillo in Arrasate
1936The French Government closes the border with the Spanish State
1990Fire at the Garoña nuclear power plant

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