Remember the Hunger Strikers - Toome

antrim | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday November 18, 2008 09:34 by éirígí PRO press at eirigi dot org

Public Meeting & Discussion

The recent release of Steve McQueen’s critically acclaimed movie Hunger has led to a renewed interest in both the 1981 Hunger Strike and the broader prison struggle of the 1970s and 1980s.

This is the context within which éirígí has organised a series of 1981 Hunger Strike-themed public meetings which will take place during the month of November.

On Wednesday (November 19), the O'Neill's Arms in Toome, county Antrim will be hosting one such event.

The main speakers will be:

Tommy McKearney from Co Tyrone who took part in both the ‘blanket’ and ‘no-wash’ protest before joining the ‘first’ Hunger Strike in 1980. Tommy went for 53 days without food before that protest was ended on the basis of a deal which the British authorities quickly retracted.

Paul McGlinchey, a former POW from south Derry.

The details are:
O’Neill’s Arms (Arby’s),
Toome, Antrim,
7.45pm, Wednesday, November 19th

Bígí Linn!