Hunger Strike March and Rally

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday April 28, 2011 08:58 by Nickleodeon - Sinn Féin nickleodeon at gmail dot com

To Commemorate all Irish Hunger Strikers from Thomas Ashe to the 1981 Hunger Strikers.

Hunger Strike March and rally to commemorate all Irish Hunger Strikers from Thomas Ashe to the 1981 Hunger Strikers.

Assembling at Garden of Remembrance at 2.30 pm, on May 7th, marching to the Hunger Strike Memorial in Glasnevin Cemetery, where a wreath will be laid on the grave of Thomas Ashe, and at the Hunger Strike memorial.

Gerry Adams TD is the main speaker, Mary Lou McDonald TD to chair, and Dessie Ellis TD and ex Hunger Striker to speak.

Thomas Ashe: The President of the IRB, Ashe had been arrested after making a seditious speech during an anti-conscription meeting. While serving 2 years in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, he joined a strike which demanded free association, which c...ommenced on the 20th of September 1917. Ashe died on the 25th of September 1917 after being brutally force-fed. On the 29th of September, the prisoners were told that they would be treated as prisoners of war and accorded pow rights, and after 10 days, the strike was called off.

Michael Fitzgerald: A volunteer in the IRA, Fitzgerald died on the 17th of October 1920 in Cork Jail, on strike 67 days

Joseph Murphy: Died 25 October 1920 in Cork Jail, on strike 76 days, buried in the Republican Plot in St. Finbarr's Cemetery in Cork.

Terence McSwiney: Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork City and Brigade Commandant 1st Cork Brigade Irish Republican Army. In an effort to isolate him from the other prisoners, he was deported from Cork Jail to Brixton Prison, London, and died at 5:40am, within hours of Murphy's death, on 25 October 1920 after being on strike 74 days

Joseph Witty: Aged 19, died on strike on 2 September 1923 in Curragh Camp.

Denis "Dinny" Barry: From Blackrock, County Cork, Commandant Barry was a veteran of 1916 and O/C for the republican police in Cork's
Ist Brigade area. Not convicted of any crime, he died on strike in Newbridge Camp, 20 November 1923, after 34 days on strike. Buried in the Republican Plot in St Finbar's Cemetery.

Andrew Sullivan: From County Cork, died on 22 November 1923 after 40 days on strike. Buried in Mallow Cemetery.

Tony D'Arcy: From Galway, D'Arcy was sentenced to three months for refusing to account for his movements and for not giving his name and address when arrested. Died 16 April 1940 in St Bricins Military Hospital, Dublin, after 52 days on strike.

Jack "Sean" McNeela: from Mayo, McNeela was sentenced to two years for "conspiracy to usurp a function of Government" by operating a pirate radio station. Died 19 April 1940 in Arbour Hill Military Detention Barracks, Dublin, after 55 days on strike.

Sean McCaughey: Sentenced to death for having detained and assaulted Stephen Hayes, ex-Chief-of-Staff of the IRA and a self-confessed informer, his sentence was commuted to life. After serving 5 years in Portlaoise in brutal and inhuman conditions, he started his strike on 19 April 1946. After 16 days, he stopped taking water and died on the 23rd day of his strike, 11 May 1946

Michael Gaughan, 3 June, 1974, 64 days
Frank Stagg, 12 February, 1976, 61 days
Bobby Sands, 5 May, 66 days
Francis Hughes,12 May, 59 days
Raymond McCreesh,21 May, 61 days
Patsy O’Hara,21 May, 61 days
Joe McDonnell, 8 July, 61 days
Martin Hurson, 13 July, 46 days
Kevin Lynch, 1 August, 71 days
Kieran Doherty, 2 August, 73 days
Thomas McElwee, 8 August, 62 days
Michael Devine, 20 August, 60 days