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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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"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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" A half truth is a half lie" Power in Honesty, when people have nothing else left.

Brother, comrades, friends

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what an insight into the H Blocks during the blanket protest and Hunger strikes. i still remember it like it was yesterday. I was 15 when Bobby Sands died. Richard O Rawe after having to live through it really brings the reader into the H block'. one small criticism is that it should of been read by someone from the North of Ireland who could pronounce the place names and a few other things properly. it was a bit irritating at times. I would of given 5 stars for all aspects if this had of been the case.

what an insight into the H Blocks

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