Starving for freedom: The prison death that changed Ireland
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As the Irish Revolution raged year after year, there was a space that the British didn’t expect to become places of revolution - prisons.
Jailed rebels became martyrs and Britain’s grip on Ireland began to weaken, pushing a revolution to boiling point.
Dr William Murphy, Professor in Modern Irish History at Dublin City University, tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the story of Irish independence and how food, pride and prison would reshape the future of Ireland and the British Empire.
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