Hunger strike
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Hunger strike
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1920 After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
1981 Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.