Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair american politics books University of London

University of London

Featuring an introduction by Zoë Heller

“Darkly hilarious

with few predicting its passage from custom

Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair american politics books University of LondonAuthor Contributor(s): O'Malley, Padraig Publisher: Beacon Press Date: 10 31 1991 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it. The