What the records say
- When
- 11 Aug 1920 – 12 Nov 1920
- Kind
- Strike
- Deaths
- 3
- Coordinates
- 51.45° N, 0.13° W
- Description
- part of the Irish War of Independence
- Participants
- 66
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1920 Cork hunger strike
Part of the Irish War of Independence
After the death of the Irish revolutionary Thomas Ashe on hunger strike Irish Republicans prisoners carried out several hunger strikes with their demands being granted. The 1920 Cork hunger strike occurred in late 1920, during the Irish War of Independence, when 65 men interned without trial in Cork County Gaol went on hunger strike, demanding release from prison, and reinstatement of their status as political prison…
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