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On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners’ "Dirty" Protest

By Tim Pat Coogan

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
0312295138, 9780312295134
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18763799 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
304\308
Time added
2020-06-12 13:20:14

Description

The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes and daubing their cell with excrement. Were they properly convicted criminals, or martyrs to political injustice? In a masterpiece of investigative journalism, Coogan provides us with the only first-hand account of the protest. His investigation led deep into the social, cultural, and economic maze of Northern Ireland's history to give readers an unmatched analysis of a troubled place and its sorrowful history.

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