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:
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Ah, but to play man number one,
To drive the dagger in his heart,
To lay his brain upon the board
And pick the acrid colors out,
To nail his thought across the door,
Its wings spread wide to rain and snow,
To strike his living hi and ho....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)