Hunger Strike
He died at the age of 25 in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in the Maze prison (known to republicans as Long Kesh). He lasted 73 days on hunger strike, the longest of the 1981 hunger strikers, and only one day short of Terence MacSwiney.
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Famous quotes containing the words hunger and/or strike:
“I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex,
But smothe it heeng as dooth a strike of flex.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)