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The 1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts



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THE 1981 HUNGER STRIKES: AMERICA REACTS
http://www.nyu.edu/irelandhouse/archives/exhibits/0501_hunger

The Archives of Irish America at New York University presents a new online
exhibit marking the twentieth anniversary of the highly controversial IRA
hunger strikes in the Maze Prison in Belfast. The strikes were the latest
battle in a propaganda war involving the British government and Irish
nationalists in Northern Ireland that had been escalating since 1969. In
this struggle, the sympathy of the American public was an important prize.

"The 1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts" traces the evolution of public
opinion in the United States from before the strikes - when few outside the
Irish American community knew what the issues were in Northern Ireland - to
their conclusion when public awareness was at its height. It uses nearly 200
direct quotations from the American print media as well as approximately 50
images drawn from archival material produced by the Irish American
community.

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