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The pair's first collaboration was Mr. McQueen's brutal and formally rigorous "Hunger," in which the actor incarnated a character based on sacrificial Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands .
Picking Out Eye Candy Steve Dollar 2011
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One of the men Matthew Teague interviewed for his story about the IRA (“Double Blind,” April Atlantic) was Denis Donaldson, “the legendary IRA hunger-striker” who had gone into hiding.
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One of the men Matthew Teague interviewed for his story about the IRA (“Double Blind,” April Atlantic) was Denis Donaldson, “the legendary IRA hunger-striker” who had gone into hiding.
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The movement's poster women were depicted as powerful and independent; one Suffragette journal cover shows a resolute hunger-striker fighting off a forced feeding.
The Art Of Suffrage 2007
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Adams will be accompanied by Pat Sheehan, a former Long Kesh hunger-striker.
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His visit forms part of the 20th anniversary of the 1980-81 hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh, Ireland, when IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands and nine of his comrades died.
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Adams 'visit forms part of the 20th anniversary of the 1980-81 hunger strike in the H Blocks of the Long Kesh prison, in Belfast, during which IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands and nine others died.
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A ceramic portrait of Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands hangs in the upstairs window of Hugh O'Lunney's bar on West 43rd Street, his wan smile and political legacy looming large over the room in which some of New York's Irish activists gathered to discuss the Belfast agreement announced in mid-April.
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Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala had refused a Freedom Front request for a special debate in Parliament on the continued imprisonment of rightwing hunger-striker Willem Ratte, FF spokesman Joseph Chiole said in a statement on Thursday.
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The 26-year-old rightwing hunger-striker, Leonard Veenendaal, who ended his 76-day fast last week, has been discharged from the H F Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria, SABC radio news reported on Friday.
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