And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete

On 3 October 1981, after 217 days and ten deaths, the hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh ended. What happened next?

Laurence McKeown, who was on the hunger strike, will be joined in conversation by Deaglán Ó Mocháin (another former republican prisoner) to discuss how the prisoners radically changed their approach to prison struggle from the early 1980s onwards. The change in strategy and tactics did not come without its challenges and much soul-searching, but it led to many successes in subsequent years and the eventual realisation of conditions that more accurately reflected the political nature of IRA imprisonment.

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Organised by Féile an Phobail Debates and Discussions Committee

AGUS D’FHÁS BLÁTHANNA ANÍOS TRÍD AN CHONCRÉIT COLÁISTE OLLSCOILE NAOMH MUIRE, BÓTHAR NA BHFÁL

Ar 3 Deireadh Fómhair 1981, i ndiaidh 217 lá agus deichniúr daoine a fuair bás, tháinig deireadh leis an stailc ocrais i H-Bhlocanna na Ceise Fada. Cad é a tharla ina dhiaidh sin?

Beidh Laurence McKeown, a bhí ar an stailc ocrais agus Deaglán Ó Mocháin (iarchime poblachtach eile) ag glacadh páirte sa chomhrá seo a phléifidh an dóigh ar athraigh na cimí a gcur chuige maidir leis an streachailt phríosúin go radacach ó go luath sna 1980í ar aghaidh. Ní raibh an t-athrú sa straitéis gan a dhúshláin agus bhí go leor domhainmhacnaimh i gceist, ach ba chúis leis an rath sna blianta ina diaidh agus le fíorú deiridh na gcúinsí a léirigh nádúr polaitiúil phríosúnacht an IRA níba chruinne.

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