cotton shirt wrote:
Ciro said: Let me know if you'd like to more about, the most famous hunger strike was in 1981.
when I think of hunger strikes I think of Gandhi. he went on hunger strike a number of times in his life and mostly his strikes were to improve conditions for others rather than for himself. to stop violence, to end persecution, and so forth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fasts_undertaken_by_Mahatma_Gandhicheers.
All very true, but I was clearly replying to another poster who introduced the topic of Irish hunger strikes. So within that context I said the hunger strike of 1981 was the most famous. I was referring to Ireland only.