IRELAND · 2008

Hunger

Steve McQueen
political imprisonment hunger strike irish independence prison brutality martyrdom
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The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

Year2008
CountryIreland
DirectorSteve McQueen
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