The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes and daubing their cell with excrement.Were they properly convicted criminals, or martyrs
The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes and daubing their cell with excrement.Were they properly convicted criminals, or martyrs to political injustice? In a masterpiece of investigative journalism, Coogan provides us with the only first-hand account of the protest. His investigation led deep into the social, cultural, and economic maze of Northern Ireland’s history to give readers an unmatched analysis of a troubled place and its sorrowful history.
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Am important read. A very good history of the whys and wherefores of the blanket protests that eventually lead to the tragedies of 1981. Though this book does not deal with those hunger strikes it does a terrific job of coerving the background leading up to them.
Must read A must read for everyone interested in the prison protest. Along with “Ten Men Dead” and “Nor Meekly Serve My Time” , one of the seminal works describing the era leading up to and including the hunger strikes. This book describes in graphic detail the brutal conditions these men lived through as well as the causative reasons.
Five Stars Very pleased with purchase like new condition