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    On the Blanket: The H-Block Story

    By Tim Pat Coogan

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    The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland.

    Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes and daubing their cell with excrement.

    Were they properly convicted criminals, or martyrs to political injustice?

    In this masterpiece of investigative journalism, Coogan provides us with the only first-hand account of the protest. His investigation led deep into the social, cultural, and economic maze of Northern Ireland's history to give readers an unmatched analysis of a troubled place and its sorrowful history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781784975401
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    On the Blanket: The H-Block Story
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    Tim Pat Coogan

    Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best-known historical writer. His 1990 biography of Michael Collins rekindled interest in Collins and his era. He is also the author of The IRA, Long Fellow, Long Shadow, 1916: The Mornings After and The Twelve Apostles.

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