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Blanketmen

An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike

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Blanketmen

By: Richard O’Rawe, Richard English - foreword
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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About this listen

"I was told in 1991 that I could be shot for opening my mouth. But I am convinced that the truth should be told and that I have a duty to the dead hunger strikers to explain fully the events that led to their deaths."

Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the "Blanketmen," he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s.

In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA Army Council and the prisoners themselves. Passionate, disturbing, and controversial, this remains a landmark book in the cruel history of Northern Ireland.

After 10 years, and the release of historical state and personal papers, Richard O'Rawe's assertions in Blanketmen have been vindicated. He has been married to Bernadette for 40 years, has three grown-up children, and still lives in west Belfast.

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A well told account of what life was like for the Blanket men, Unimaginable hell.

Well told and a great insight

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This is the brilliant story of those terrible events at the hands of the tyrannical english.

Brilliant

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I would have preferred a northern Irish performer as they could have pronounced the place names correctly

A well written book that adds much to the understanding of the Hunger Strike

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Listen to this in all one go true irish men died for us nothing be respect for every one off them

Truly amazing book

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having been 16 when this happened, listening to it now, it sickens me the barbarity Thatcher and her government showed to the strikers who were British citizens

closeness to the strike

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