Autore: Marion Ains
Formato: Copertina flessibile
Pagine: 108
Data Pubblicazione: 2014-04-23
Edizione: 1
Lingua: English
Descrizione:
On October 25, 1920, the Republican Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, died after a seventy fourday hunger strike at Brixton Prison, England. His ordeal, witnessed throughout the world, brought a support neverbeforeseen for the Irish cause. Thus, his death marked a turning point in the Irish War of Independence and precipitated the English fall in ireann. In deciding to starve to death, MacSwiney used his hunger as a political critique of the ruling powers in Ireland. Like thousands of men and women all through the 20th century, he changed his hunger for justice and freedom into a political weapon. The history of the hunger strike is a vast subject, and though in no doubt incomplete, this book will try to give an understanding of this form of protest apparently nonviolent through the telling of the life and death of one Irishman.