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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Feminist responses toward the women in Armagh were polarized: either they felt they must support them as a women’s rights issue, or they felt that they could not support them due to their nationalist beliefs. The […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Republican responses toward the Armagh protests were complicated and varied in their support for the women. Within the Republican tradition is deeply embedded the age-old idea of “Mother Ireland,” the fictitious […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Catholics generally tended to do what some feminist groups couldn’t, and set aside the matter of republicanism entirely when assessing the Armagh women. Unlike the feminists who were objecting to the inequality […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

“Three women today joined the five-week-old hunger strike by prisoners in Northern Ireland demanding that the British Government grant them political status” (Borders)

The three, inmates of the […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Within Northern Ireland and indeed within the international stage as a whole, there were extreme and polarized reactions to the 1980 and ’81 hunger strikes in the H-Block of Long Kesh. Bobby Sands became an […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Meaghan Dwyer, Katie Senft, Marion R. Casey. 1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts. Archives of Irish America. Website. 12/2/14. […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

The Armagh Hunger Strikes

In 1976, the British Government moved to declassify the Republican political prisoners. In response to this decision and in support of their male comrades, the Republican […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

History

The history that lead up to and produced the Armagh hunger strikes reaches far back into traditions of the culture such as the trope of “Mother Ireland,” which is fundamental in understanding the […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Literature

A great deal of literary work has arisen out of the Armagh Hunger strikes in effort to both understand and respond to it. Many of these works are clearly defined in the context of the Armagh […]
Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 11 years, 9 months ago

Silent Grace (Orla Brady and Cara Seymour) was released theatrically by Guerilla Films in the UK and Ireland. It was Critics Choice in the London Metro and Dublin Hot Press.
It was awarded the Soka Art Award and […]

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