Hunger Strike: Margaret Thatcher's Battle with the Ira, 1980-1981

by Thomas Hennessey

Based on recently declassified British government documents, this authoritative new book by best-selling popular historian Thomas Hennessey argues that it was almost impossible for the British government to grant the demands of the Irish Republican prisoners, regardless of the impact that the hunger strikes had in boosting support for Sinn Fein. The concession of the '5 demands' would have amounted to POW status for Republican prisoners and would...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716531763
• ISBN13: 9780716531760
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"