Joe Nolan's Insomnia » hunger strike http://joenolan.com/blog Stay Awake Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:54:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Bye, Bye, Bobby http://joenolan.com/blog/?p=5033 http://joenolan.com/blog/?p=5033#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:31:39 +0000 Joe Nolan http://joenolan.com/blog/?p=5033

Today we remember the death of Bobby Sands following a hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at the HM Prison Maze which began on this day in 1981. Sands and his fellow Provisional Irish Republican Army inmates were afforded what amounted to POW status (Special Category Status) determined by negotiations between the IRA and the British Government as a prerequisite to truce negotiations. When the status was revoked Sands and nine others held a hunger strike. The protest made international media, reading as a war between the the protesters and Margaret Thatcher. Sands was elected to Parliament before all ten protesters died of starvation.

Here’s Sands’s story…



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]]> http://joenolan.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=5033 0 Coincidence Control Network: Episode 54 http://joenolan.com/blog/?p=2223 http://joenolan.com/blog/?p=2223#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:29:37 +0000 Joe Nolan http://joenolan.com/blog/?p=2223 Coincidence Control Network: File #054 – Attack of the Modern Caveman

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This week: Pussy Riot update, the slow television of Norway, Detroit bark city?, Matt Forney is a massive dick-bag, Dark Wallet and BitCoin: a good idea?, and a Canadian Astronaut snorts at Hollywood.

Personnel – Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins

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Links:

  • Pussy Riot Hunger Strike – Link
  • Norway does TV…wrong – Link
  • Investor to Create a Forest in Detroit – Link
  • Matt Forney – Modern Caveman – Link
  • Dark wallet – Link
  • Canadian Astronaut booted out of screening of Gravity for heckling – Link

Interludes:

Dissolved, End, Messer Chups

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