Fiction, Encryption, and Contradiction: Remediation and Remembrance of the 1981 Hunger Strikes.

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    • Subject Terms:
      IRELAND
    • Subject Terms:
      IRISH Republican Army; SINN Fein
    • Subject Terms:
      SANDS, Robert
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the remembrance and remediation of the 1981 Hunger Strikes on March 1, 1981 in Ireland. Topics discussed include democratization in electoral processes, Robert Sands, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who selected March 1 as the date for the anniversary retraction of the Special Category Status in 1976, and Irish republican party Sinn Féin's political rhetoric.