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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...
...Doherty and Paddy Agnew, both 26, won seats to the Dáil in last month's election, but neither has been able to attend. They are prisoners in the H-block of Ulster's Maze Prison, where Doherty is now in the seventh week of a hunger strike. His death or Agnew's resignation would cause by-elections that could be won by Haughey and his Fianna Fail (Band of Destiny) party, thereby weakening FitzGerald's government still more. That possibility has forced both Irish leaders to reconsider their positions on Ulster. The former Prime...
Meanwhile, London, fearful of an outbreak of Protestant terrorism, still refuses to grant I.R.A. hunger strikers political-prisoner status. Late last week, the strikers appeared to give ground somewhat, offering to drop their insistence on special status for themselves if their demands for improved prison conditions were applied to all inmates at the Maze...
Whatever the merits of Britain's case, the Thatcher government's apparent callousness over the hunger strikers in the H-block has been costly, especially in the U.S. Since the death of Hunger Striker Bobby Sands in May, direct and indirect contributions to the I.R.A. from Irish-Americans have reportedly tripled. During a visit to New York last month, Prince Charles was the target of loud anti-British demonstrations. Last week Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret-who caused a furor in a 1979 visit to the U.S. when she was reported to have called the Irish...
...three speakers spoke to Joe McDonnell, the hunger striker who last night was described by authorities as "close to death," and declared that McDonnell should not be allowed...