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audio, ireland, Laurence McKeown - 23 juin 2026

Ex-POW Laurence McKeown on the Irish republican prisoner struggle after the 1981 hunger strike

Laurence McKeown—Irish Republican, former hunger-striker, writer—was on Montreal community radio station CKUT's Prison Radio Show recently to discuss And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete, his second prison memoir. This book covers the period after the 1981 hunger strike on which 10 republicans died in the struggle against British criminalization. In the conversation, Laurence discusses the shifting strategies adopted in this new period, and how they built on lessons learned during the blanket protest to achieve the substance of their demands. He also discusses how the prisoners used this strength and autonomy to pursue the continuation of the republican struggle...

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