Word: hara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hara urged the audience to offer continued support for the IRA prisoners and to help Northern Ireland reach a solution before more hunger strikers...
Other speakers included Elizabeth O'Hara, sister of Patsy O' Hara, another hunger striker who died, and Malachy McCreesh, brother of Ray McCreesh, who also died...
Sands, who, along with O'Hara and McCreesh, has been touring the United States to stir up support for the hunger strikers, finished by praising Boston Irish Americans in particular for their support...
...Hara also described atrocities allegedly committed by the British, and said that after her brother died "cigarette burns were visible on his eyelids and it was clear that his nose had been broken...
...through Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry as women banged dustbin lids in the early morning darkness and gangs of youthful I.R.A. sympathizers attacked army and police patrols with stones and fire bombs. At week's end the grim cycle began all over again as Patrick O'Hara, 24, became the fourth hunger striker to die. The rioting left one man and a twelve-year-old girl dead-apparently victims of plastic bullets-while six British soldiers were injured. But neither last week's casualties, nor the possibility of more to come, seemed likely to force...