Pluid Scéal na mBlocanna H 1976- 1981

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le  Eoghan Mac Cormaic

Coiscéim 2021

ISBN 6660012220083

LTH 213

I 1976 thosaigh rialtas na Breataine ag maíomh nach raibh i bpríosúnaigh phoblachtacha sa tuaisceart ach coirpigh. Sheas na príosúnaigh air gur cimí polaitiúla a bhí iontu: dhiúltaigh siad éide an phríosúin a chaitheamh agus obair an phríosúin a dhéanamh. Iidr 1976 agus 1981 mhair na céadta díobh ina gcillíní sna Blocanna H gan d’éadaí acu ach pluid, agus a mbanchromrádaithe i bPríosún Ard Mhacha ar stailc níocháin. Chríochnaigh agóid na pluide le stailc ocrais a tharraing aird an tsaoil mhóir agus fuair dechniúr bás.

Bronnadh an chéad duais le haghaidh ábhar léitheoireachta don fhoghlaimeoir fásta ar an leabhar seo i gComórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2021.

In 1976 the British government began to argue that republican prisoners in the north were only criminals. The prisoners insisted that they were political prisoners: they refused to wear prison uniforms and do prison work. Between 1976 and 1981 hundreds of them survived in their cells in the H Blocks clothed in blankets, with their female comrades in Armagh Prison on a laundry strike. The blanket protest ended with a world-famous hunger strike and ten people died.

This book was awarded first prize for reading material for the adult learner in the 2021 Oireachtas Literary Competitions.