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How many IRA hunger strikers died?
Although ten men died during the course of the hunger strike, thirteen others began refusing food but were taken off hunger strike, either due to medical reasons or after intervention by their families.
What did Bobby Sands die of?
Starvation
Bobby Sands/Cause of death
Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze’s prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike, aged 27. The original pathologist’s report recorded the hunger strikers’ causes of death as “self-imposed starvation”, later amended to simply “starvation” after protests from the dead strikers’ families.
Is Bobby Sands dead?
Deceased (1954–1981)
Bobby Sands/Living or Deceased
Where was Bobby Sands buried?
May 7, 1981
Bobby Sands/Date of burial
Which hunger striker died first?
During the protest 10 prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army had starved themselves to death in the hunger strike. The first to die, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom during his hunger strike.
Is some mother’s son a true story?
Some Mother’s Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland. Helen Mirren and John Lynch had already acted together in the 1984 Troubles-related film Cal.
What is the longest hunger strike?
She ended the fast on 9 August 2016, after 16 long years of fasting. Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks (she was nasally force fed in jail), she has been called “the world’s longest hunger striker”.
What was the hunger strike in England?
The Suffragette prisoners’ hunger strike protest remains one of the most poignant and disturbing aspects of the struggle for the vote. Suffragettes refused to eat and often drink while imprisoned, threatening to starve themselves to force a response from the authorities.
Where was Mother’s Son filmed?
Suffolk County
A Mother’s Son was filmed in Suffolk County. It was filmed in and around the town of Southwold in Suffolk. The series was also filmed in the nearby village of Walberswick.