1981 Irish hunger strike

it’s not political it’s crime.” In 1981, the IRA prisoners started the second hunger strike in the Maze prison because the prisoners wanted to be recognized as prisoners of war. In Northern Ireland, the British government planned to isolate, criminalize, and demoralize the IRA. Some Mother’s Son appeals to the personal side of the argument by showing how one person can affect their whole family and then some. Hunger depicts the personal side as well, but it shows by making the audience think deeply through silences. In Some Mother’s Son, the hunger strike is shown through multiple sources mostly Bobby Sands, Gerard Quigley, and Francis Hughes. Gerard Quigley and Francis Hughes got caught…

television’s signal was intermittently dropping out. The heart monitor attached to me kept perfect time. “How could they let that happen to him?” I asked, “Why would they let him die?” Rajeed, my friend from my home country of Afghanistan, was dead because of two stupid guards who thought they were above us. He wanted to get to Australia like the rest of us. But no, leaving a war-torn country so he could live a decent life was not a good enough reason for him to be allowed in. They locked us all…

Thomas, John, Wilfred Waluchow, and Elizabeth Gedge, eds. "Case 3.3 Discontinuing Force Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient. "Well and Good -Fourth Edition: A Case Study Approach to Health Care Ethics. 4th ed. New York: Broadway, 2014. 131-135. Print. This is a case study of a patient who suffers from anorexia nervosa and has been force fed for 4 years in order to keep her alive. No improvements in her mental state have been made in this time, despite the many types of therapy have been…

In 1845, the Great Famine began, leaving an everlasting mark on the Irish people and the political landscape of their country. The potato crop, which sustained much of Ireland’s population, stopped growing, leading to mass starvation and the death of over a million people. In The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, Anna O’Donnell is born near the end of this national tragedy and survives, but later chooses to starve herself, much to the despair of her nurse Lib. Similarly, the movie Some Mother’s Son…

These strikes would go on to symbolize that not only was republican ideology spreading but that the nationalistic Catholics want the British to stay out of their affairs. This was seen with the threat of the IRA on British parliament when they tried to assassinate the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. It is interesting to see that throughout most of Ireland’s history there has always been a struggle between them and Britain. Not just Britain but between themselves. Whether you are a…

The Irish Diaspora in the US is massive with the 1990 census totalling an immense 43 million Americans consider themselves to be Irish American which at the time equated to roughly 19% of the American population(Feargal Cochrane 2007:218). Beyond just equating for a fifth of the American population, a third of American presidents having heritage to Ireland with four specifically having ties to what is now the Republic of Ireland while the other 12 are linked to Northern Ireland. Despite the fact…

prisoner role of conformity towards the authoritative figure (Goffman, 1961 cited in Dillon,2014:290). It creates a social expectation that a prisoner will have to act in accordance with his role, with the given attire (International Communication Association, 2012:1). This denial of privileges may be deemed as a utilitarian means of punishment in that it removes the individuality and dignity of the individual, which was exemplified by the 1981 Irish hunger strike. During the peak of sectarian…

this paper is to give you some information about the movie 12 Years A Slave and its journey to the Oscars. This can only be done by first giving you some insight into the people who made it possible. Including the Director and the man who wrote the book that this movie is based on, Solomon Northup who explains his experience in the hardships of slavery after his abduction in 1841. The movie 12 Years A Slave was shot in twenty thirteen by director Steven Rodney McQueen. He was born October 9,…

homesteaders to live in Ireland to change Ireland to Protestantism. At the point when Ireland turned into the Irish Free State, six districts that make up Northern Ireland, a larger part Protestant zone with a Catholic minority, decided to stay with the United Kingdom (Imbornoni et al., 2007). Unionists in Northern Ireland, for the most part Protestants, contradicted Home Rule and upheld keeping the "Union" with the United Kingdom while patriots, for the most part Catholics, sought after a…

in thirty-six languages. This Book Is Dedicated to a Man Who Doesn’t Need to Read It:My Cherished Friend HOMER CROY HOW TO Win Friends AND Influence People REVISED EDITION Dale Carnegie Editorial Consultant: Dorothy Carnegie Editorial Assistance: Arthur R. Pell, Ph.D. SIMON AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK Copyright 1936 by Dale Carnegie, copyright renewed © 1964 by Donna Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie Revised Edition copyright © 1981 by Donna Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie All rights…