Laurence McKeown 3: Staying on Hunger Strike

Laurence McKeown discusses the experience of being on hunger strike. The third of three extracts from a public interview in NUI Galway in March 2016. Laurence McKeown joined the IRA at the age of 17, was arrested in August 1976, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Maze Prison. He took part in the blanket and “no wash” protest and the 1981 hunger strike. Following the deaths of nine prisoners, McKeown’s family authorised medical intervention to save his life on the 70th day of his hunger strike. He completed a Bachelors degree in social science from the Open University while in prison, and subsequently obtained a PhD in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast. He has written plays and two books about Irish Republican prisoners and co-wrote ‘H3’, a film about the 1981 hunger strike.

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#Hunger_Strike #Northern_Ireland #Political_Science_sociology #NUIG #School_of_Political_Science_and_Scoiology #Power_Conflict_Ideologies

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