1981 Hunger Strikes

A @Britac_news funded project (2016-2017) exploring the 1981 hunger strikes in Long Kesh/Maze Prison 35 years on. Project Co-Is @MaggieMScull & @notsecretGarden

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

Listen to symposium papers here: https://t.co/4gvxDHy0wF.
Our @IrishTimesCultr articles are here: https://t.co/ZfL7ZrETZf.
Our @TheIrishReview special issue is here: https://t.co/T8it17BVKE

#IrishStudies #MedicalHumanities #Twitterstorians

[Dr Maggie Scull @MaggieMScull]

New piece from me about the 40th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strikes.

Thanks to @MartinDoyleIT for the opportunity to highlight our @HungerStrikes81 series & to muse on how #COVID19 has forced commemoration of the strikes to change. #irishstudies @notsecretGarden

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

3/ plus personal reflections from Fr. Joe McVeigh, Lawrence McKeown and Hugh Logue. Thank you to all our contributors and to @19acres for all their work on the special issue! Take a look here: https://t.co/T8it17BVKE
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[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

1/ Delighted to announce that our special issue of @TheIrishReview on 'Rethinking the Hunger Strikes' has been published. There's an intro by @MaggieMScull & @notsecretGarden + articles on: the experience & history of hunger striking by @Ianmillerhistor;
https://t.co/T8it17BVKE

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

2/ the strikes and the British press by @RoseannaJane; Carmen Berenguer's poetry & Bobby Sands by Bárbara Fernández Melleda; Steve McQueen's film Hunger by @ecoomasaru; Stephen Hopkins on republican memoir, 1923 and 1981; and F. Stuart Ross on the Republican Socialist Movement.

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

Don't miss @MaeveMurphyFilm's Silent Grace this evening - or the great articles by @ecoomasaru & @emiliepine on this https://t.co/TCpqcowawB https://t.co/aJbx1bDDFB

[Dr Maggie Scull @MaggieMScull]

Join me on 11 October for the Catholic Church & the 'Troubles' at the Cont. British History seminar @ihr_history https://t.co/Q3YdtTHn3Z

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Thomas Ashe died #OTD 100 years ago after being force-fed. Learn more @OPWKilmainham exhibition @CiaraBreath @Ianmillerhistor @LMcAtackney

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

The @OPWKilmainham #hungerstrike exhibition is excellent for highlighting the various C20th strikes, inc. women's #loveirishresearch

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

Congratulations, @Ianmillerhistor! It's a great exhibition with lots of fascinating archival material #loveirishresearch @OPWKilmainham https://t.co/092rj0QkpV

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

Don't miss the new #hungerstrike exhibition at @OPWKilmainham, organised by @CiaraBreath, @Ianmillerhistor & @LMcAtackney #loveirishresearch

[Stuart Borthwick @IREmurals]

Mural for Pat "Beag" McGeown (3 Sep 56 - 1 Oct 96), Republican, blanketman & former hunger striker. Photo Ballymurphy, Belfast Aug 2009.

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Edwin Coomasaru for The Irish Times on female militancy, women's hands and Maeve Murphy's 2001 film 'Silent Grace'. https://t.co/BW5zKwXqrn

[Dr. Alison Garden 📚🫀🖊️ @notsecretGarden]

Delighted to see @emiliepine's @HungerStrikes81 piece mentioned in Maeve Murphy's @IrishTimesCultr article https://t.co/hZNDsO8vtS

[Writing the 'Troubles' @TroublesWriting]

Just one week to go until the Writing the Troubles Workshop- so excited! #IrishStudies #irishhistory

[1981 Hunger Strikes @HungerStrikes81]

#Agreement20 Rolling Deadline Extension for Open Library of Humanities special edition, open access journal https://t.co/2UUaRZ1SRS

[Dr Maggie Scull @MaggieMScull]

My @TCBHJournal review of 'The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies & Memories' https://t.co/JMWdKpmS3n

[Dr Maggie Scull @MaggieMScull]

1 week to get articles in for @agreement_20 open access special edition journal with @openlibhums! https://t.co/FZSvmFhcu6 #irishstudies

[4 Nations History @4nationshistory]

#MondayBlogs Matthew Jackson on presentations of the Troubles in museums & how to remember the past https://t.co/aT2NjJYWag #twitterstorians

[William Murphy @WillMurphy8]

Great to see Mark Reynolds's excellent research getting deserved attention. @officialgaa @SportHisIre https://t.co/eXquoFs0Im