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1981 Irish hunger strike

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Chronological list

Dates	Period	Name(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
1917	Post-Easter Rising	Thomas Ashe d. 25 September 1917	Forty detainees struck. Ashe died from force-feeding
1919-21	Anglo-Irish War	Michael Fitzgerald (Irish republican) d. 17 October 1920 Terence MacSwiney d. 25 October 1920) Joe Murphy (Irish republican) d. 25 October 1920
1922-24	Civil War	Denny Barry d. 20 November 1923
1939-46	WW2	Seán McCaughey d. 11 May 1946
1970s	the Troubles	Michael Gaughan (Irish republican) d. 3 June 1974) Frank Stagg (Irish republican) d. 12 February 1976
1980-81	1981 Irish hunger strike
1981-98	the Troubles	Dessie Ellis 1990	Ellis was protesting his extradition

References

• Flynn, Barry (2011). Pawns in the Game: Irish Hunger Strikes 1912–1981. The Collins Press. ISBN 9781848899377.

Category:Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike