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Smashing H-Block: The Popular Campaign Against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982

Smashing H-Block: The Popular Campaign Against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982

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Irish History

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ISBN10: 184631710X
ISBN13: 9781846317101
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Aug 31 2011
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Smashing H-Block is a political history of the Irish republican struggle against criminalization from 1976 to 1982. This struggle, which culminated in the historic hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, is widely regarded as a turning point in Ireland's 'Troubles', marking the 'last great wave of activism and mobilization within the nationalist population'. Unlike previous accounts of this period, this fascinating book focuses on the popular movement outside the prisons, challenging republican orthodoxy and stressing the importance of broad-based, grassroots movements in effecting political and social change. Ultimately, it was what happened outside the prisons during these years of protest that reshaped and revitalized modern Irish republicanism.

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