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Internment, Imprisonment and Escape - Mountjoy Hunger Strike

Mountjoy Hunger Strikers, April 1920

Mountjoy Hunger Strikers, April 1920

Postcard photograph of 'The Mountjoy Heroes' - a group of Mountjoy hunger strikers, April 1920. Seated left to right are  J.B. O'Driscoll, A. McCabe and M. Hegarty. Standing left to right are T. Toomey, C.P. Lucy and J. Gannon.  The hunger strike was undertaken as a protest against their lack of political prisoner status.

 

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