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  1. Hash.

    Hash. pure daycent

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    Vol. Francis Hughes, - 12th May, 1981 - 59 days.

    The Second of the Ten Brave Men to pass away

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  3. Hash.

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    fred is your 'special uncle' isnt he edge <yikes>
     
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    95 years today was the execution of James Connolly
     
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    blah blah blah
     
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    hope they got him right in the face
     
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    the wild rantings of a sobering wino <ok>
     
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    Patriots Both
     
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    Sorry to be ignorant but I didn't realise 10 of them died.
    **** me, the only name we ever heard mentioned at school over here was Bobby Sands. Why was that? Was Bobby the first or something?
     
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    30 YEARS ON

    & you still have the mind of a 5 YEAR OLD

    Dementia affects us all in someways
     
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    He won Celebrity Hunger Strike.
     
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    Am I right in thinking there was a second potato famine?

    Seems a few succumbed in the 80's <ok>
     
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    yes he was the first and he was a british mp left to die by the british
     
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    Well i was allways told to eat my Greens.
     
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    left to die? ther was plenty of chocolate and he used to waste it by pasting his walls with it. the man was deranged
     
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    Left a partner and young son behind did Toast Rack Man Bobby.

    How wonderfully thoughtful of him. Coward.
     
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    He was the first to die, and was elected as an MP to Westminster. he kept a diary of his hunger strike and was a fantastic poet and songwriter.

    kieran Doherty was also elected as a TD in the Dail, but it made a significant splash that Maggie would allow the death of a serving MP
     
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    I suppose it goes to show how little people cared over here when I had only heard of Bobby.

    I'm not for or against any side on this because I honestly know way too little to make that decision but I do have a question. If he was on a hunger strike, how can you say the British left him to die? Surely by refusing to eat he caused his own death.
     
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    Surely by refusing to eat he caused his own death.

    Correct and as I say leave behind a young son.
     
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