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Since an emaciated Bobby Sands died in Maze Prison near Belfast four months ago, nine other hunger strikers have starved themselves to death. Outside the prison, some 50 persons have been killed in violent and emotional incidents generated by the battle of wills in the H-block section of the prison. The Provisional Irish Republican Army, which organized the strike, gained a propaganda victory, attracted new recruits and got financial contributions from the U.S. But now that may be changing. Under increasing pressure from families of the prisoners and the Roman Catholic Church-combined with the refusal of Britain...
Leading Catholic clergymen have been increasingly vocal in expressing their misgivings about the wisdom of the hunger strike. Father Denis Paul, a chaplain at Maze Prison, has called on the I.R.A. to end the fasts. The Most Rev. Cahal Daly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in the Irish Republic, has condemned the "sick charade of guns and volleys fired over dead bodies at funerals." After two young Protestant police officers were killed last week by an I.R.A. land mine, Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Primate of All Ireland, declared: "This act must be called by its proper...
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...Northern Ireland's Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, proved to be a winner in an important by-election last week. At stake was the British Parliament seat vacant since the death of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalists who have starved themselves to death in the Maze Prison near Belfast. The victor was Owen Carron, 28, Sands' former campaign manager, whose triumph over Protestant Kenneth Maginnis by 31,278 to 29,048 votes boosted the spirits of the Roman Catholic minority that wants independence from Britain...
Carron was helped by the coincidence that only 50 minutes after the polls opened, Michael Devine, 27, became the latest prisoner in the Maze to die as the result of a hunger strike. Serving a twelve-year sentence for illegal possession of firearms, Devine was, like Sands and the other would-be martyrs, seeking treatment as political prisoners for the 700 I.R.A. members now held at the Maze. In Belfast and elsewhere, rioters subsequently attacked police and British troops with gunfire and bombs; at least 30 people were injured, including three soldiers and three Northern Irish policemen...