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A new book by former IRA hunger striker Laurence McKeown has shed fresh light on how republicans continued to challenge the H-Block prison system in the years after the 1981 hunger strike ended.

On March 1, 1981, an Irish republican prisoner began refusing food in Long Kesh prison to demand recognition as a political prisoner and to oppose the removal of special category status. His staggered ...