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爱尔兰共和军。老马不过是又一次张冠李戴罢了，倒也没有完全造谣：))
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The Hunger Strike of 1981
Summary
The hunger strikes transformed the political context of the Northern Ireland problem.
Now, republican prisoners appeared in the unwonted role of being prepared to
accept suffering for their cause rather than simply inflicting suffering on its behalf. The
mass turnouts at the prisoners' funderals revealed that the standing of the prisoners in
Catholic areas had risen dramatically and this was soon reflected in a novel
development, an impressive Sinn F閕n electoral intervention. By June 1983 Sinn
F閕n had obtained some 13.4% of the vote in the North which compared well with
the SDLP's 17.9%.
Bew and Gillespie (1993) Northern Ireland A Chronology of the Troubles
1968-1993
Bobby Sands, then leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the Maze Prison, refused food
on 1 March 191 and so began a new hunger strike. The choice of the date was significant because
it marked the fifth anniversary of the ending of special category status (1 March 1976). The main
aim of the new strike was to achieve the reintroduction of 'political' status for Republican
prisoners. Special category, or 'political', status would be achieved if five demands were met: the
right of prisoners to wear their civilian clothes at all times; the right to free association within a
block of cells; the right not to do prison work; the right to educational and recreational facilities;
and the restoration of lost remission of sentence. It later became clear that the IRA leadership
outside the prison was not in favour of a new hunger strike following the outcome of the 1980
strike. The main impetus for a new protest came from the prisoners themselves. The strike was to
last until 3 October 1981 and was to see 10 Republican prisoners starve themselves to death in
support of their demands.
The tactic of the hunger strike has a special place in Republican history and has proved very
emotive for Nationalists in Ireland throughout the 20th century. The impact that could be achieved
on world opinion was clear in 1920 when Terence MacSwiney, then Lord Mayor of Cork, died in
Brixton Prison, London, on day 74 of his hunger strike. A passage from a speech he had made at
his inauguration as Lord Mayor was to be recalled during the 1981 hunger strike: "It is not those
who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer".
Just how much impact the 1981 strike was having on the Nationalist population of Ireland became
clear when Bobby Sands was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) during a by-election for the
Fermanagh / South Tyrone seat and two other hunger strikers were elected as Teachta D醝l
(TDs) in a general election in the Republic of Ireland.
The hunger strike ended on 3 October 1981 when those Republican prisoners who had still been
refusing food decided to end their hunger strike. At this stage in the protest six prisoners were on
hunger strike. The main reason for the ending of the strike was the realisation that each of the
families of the strikers would ask for medical intervention whenever the strikers lapsed into
unconsciousness. On 6 October 1981 James Prior, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland,
announced a series of measures which went a long way to meeting many aspects of the prisoners'
five demands.
The hunger strike of 1981 had very important and far-reaching consequences for Northern Ireland
and proved to be one of the key turning points of 'the Troubles'. The Republican movement had
achieved a huge propaganda victory over the British government and had obtained a lot of
international sympathy. Active and tacit support for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) increased in
Nationalist areas. Political support for Sinn F閕n (SF) was demonstrated in two by-elections (and
the general election in the Republic of Ireland) and eventually led to the emergence of SF as a
significant political force in Northern Ireland. The British government's fear that SF would
overtake the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) as the main representative of the
Catholic population of Northern Ireland was a key reason for the government signing the
Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) on 15 November 1985.
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小安子，你说对了，死于绝食的确实是
