Word: hurson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks since. Ireland has faded into the background noise of the news again. Almost everyone remembers Sands; very few could name the sixth hunger striker to die--Martin Hurson--or the two that seem likely to go next--Kieran Doherty and Kevin Lynch. No political pressure of any sort has been mobilized in America; no message has come from our Irish-American president, and political leaders like Ted Kennedy have done little more than issue perfunctory statements asking Margaret Thatcher for more flexibility. And the left has done nothing at all, despite its support for virtually every other national liberation...
...little bit, as a few more come to hold signs. 'Brits Out of Ireland.' They're bitter, these men, bitter enough that it pleases them to hear of the wave of riots plaguing England. And bitter they should be, for all the marching, and all the courage of Martin Hurson and Joe McDonnell, and all the weight of justice, does not seem to be getting their cause anywhere...
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