blanket/dirty protest

Remember The Hunger Strikers

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“Remember the hunger strikers, 25th anniversary.” Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strikes in 1974 and 1976 and included in a line of portraits alongside nine of the deceased 1981 hunger strikers; Bobby Sands is shown in the large mural on the right hand side, next to blanket men Hugh Rooney and Freddie Toal.

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The First Blanketman

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IRA volunteer Kieran (here Cıarán) Nugent spent nine months in Long Kesh as a Special Category prisoner in 1975. When he was arrested again in 1976 and sent to the H Blocks, the status no longer existed and he could no longer wear his own clothes. He refused to wear a prison uniform and spent his first night naked. On the next day he was given a blanket and so became the first blanket man.

Rockville Street, west Belfast

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Silence = Complicity

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Three images of IRPWA graffiti outside the Royal Hospital on the Falls Road, Belfast: “End the blanket torture of republican POWs – Portlaoise * Maghaberry * England”, “Support the POWs protest Sat Aug 10th 2pm Whiterock Road POW mural”, and “Protest 4 POW status. If you care – you’ll be there “Silence = Complicity” IRPWA.”

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