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Hunger
IRELAND · 2008

Hunger

Steve McQueen
political imprisonment hunger strike Irish independence prison brutality martyrdom
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Synopsis

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

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