Sentences with phrase «irish hunger strikes»

The artist's 2008 feature film «Hunger», depicted the 1981 Irish hunger strike, starring an emaciated Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands; premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Not exact matches

Critics say the row is similar to that over Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands, whose death on hunger strike in 1981 caused worldwide protests against the British government.

It depicts the awakening of a reluctant recruit who becomes a militant, and graphically depicts the violence meted out to the protestors and hunger strikers in the critical years of 1912 - 13, potently drawing parallels with the 1984 - 85 Miners» Strike and the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikes.

It is a shot of a priest (Liam Cunningham) and prisoner, in silhouette, engaged in dialectic that starts off with common bullshit and bravado (the priest swearing up a storm), then turns to the brute beliefs each owns about the British - Irish conflict, the morality of suicide, and the prisoner's leading of an impending hunger strike, then the prisoner's telling of an anecdote of youthful violence he perpetrated — how he euthanized a young foal with a broken leg when none of his friends would do it.

In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty - seven - year - old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.

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McQueen applied his tough, often personal style to narrative film for the first time in 2008 with Hunger, a character study starring Michael Fassbender as an Irish prisoner starving himself as part of a hunger sHunger, a character study starring Michael Fassbender as an Irish prisoner starving himself as part of a hunger shunger strike.

Since 2008, he has been concentrating on movies, having directed «Hunger,» about Irish political activist Bobby Sands» hunger strike in prison, and «Shame,» about a sex addict in contemporary NewHunger,» about Irish political activist Bobby Sands» hunger strike in prison, and «Shame,» about a sex addict in contemporary Newhunger strike in prison, and «Shame,» about a sex addict in contemporary New York.