The 1981 Irish hunger strike (2005) TVRip (XviD)

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The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out", the dispute escalatedinto the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement.

In 1980 seven prisoners participated in the first hunger strike, which ended after 53 days. The second hunger strike took place in 1981 and was a showdown between the prisoners and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. One hunger striker, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament during the strike, prompting media interest from around the world. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death, including Sands, whose funeral was attended by 100,000 people.

The strike radicalised nationalist politics, and was the driving force that enabled Sinn Fein to become a mainstream political party.

Originally broadcast on BBC1 Northern Ireland in 2005.


Complete name : The Hunger Strike.avi
Format : AVI
File size : 233 MiB
Duration : 57mn 58s
Overall bit rate : 561 Kbps

Video
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Format profile : Streaming Video@L1
Codec ID : XVID
Bit rate : 444 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 105 Kbps
Minimum bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels

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