Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation - Couverture rigide

O'Hearn, Denis

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ISBN 10 : 156025842X ISBN 13 : 9781560258421

Editeur : Nation Books, 2005

Synopsis

Bobby Sands was twenty seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his activities as a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). When he died on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike against repressive prison conditions in Northern Ireland's H Block prisons, parliaments across the world stopped for a minute silence in his honor. Nelson Mandela followed Sands' example and led a similar hunger strike in South Africa, and Fidel Castro compared his suffering to that of Jesus. Bobby Sand's remarkable life and death have made him an "Irish Che Guevara." He is an enduring figure of resistance whose life has been an inspiration to millions around the world. In Hollywood, actors like Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke and Brad Pitt have flirted with a biopic of his life. But until the publication of Nothing But an Unfinished Song, no book has adequately explored the motivation of the hunger strikers, nor recreated this period of history from within the prison cell. Denis O'Hearn's powerful biography, with new material based on primary research and interviews, illuminates for the first time this enigmatic, controversial and heroic figure.

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À propos de l'auteur

Denis O'Hearn was trained as an economist and sociologist at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1988. He has been Fulbright Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin (1991/92) and visiting scholar at several universities in the US and Europe. He is a Professor of Sociology at Queen's College, Belfast.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nation Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 156025842X
• ISBN 13: 9781560258421
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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