{"id":1518,"date":"2013-03-20T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2013-03-20T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:34:22","slug":"loyalism-and-the-hunger-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"Loyalism and The Hunger Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a first time contribution from a young girl who is currently\u00a0 third year student at Ulster University Jordanstown.\u00a0 She is conducting research for an undergraduate dissertation which forms a significant part of\u00a0her final degree mark.\u00a0 She is studying politics and criminology–her dissertation tutor is well known and distinguished writer, Henry Patterson.<\/strong>
\n This girl has a particular interest in Loyalist thinking around Hunger Strikes.\u00a0 Not just the 1981 Republican strike but others throughout the conflict.\u00a0 She would be interested in hearing from anyone in relation to this, and I can pass any details on if you contact this site through the comments section.\u00a0 Hopefully this student will get the assistance she needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I am currently carrying out research into Loyalist and unionist perspectives of the 1981 Hunger strikes.\u00a0 As you are well aware the main bulk of research regarding the Hunger strikes in 1981 is mainly Republican views with very little attention given to loyalist prisoner\u2019s opinions.<\/p>\n

I want to attempt to find out if loyalist prisoners supported the Republican prisoners in their strike. If so then why were the loyalists not striking too? I am aware of Gusty Spence\u2019s hunger strike in the bid to obtain political status, the UDA hunger strike and the other number of protests in order to obtain segregation.<\/p>\n

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I want to try and unearth (if there are any) differences in opinion between loyalist prisoners inside the prison and loyalist outside the prison. I also want to show the difference in opinion of the working class loyalists and the unionist politicians. While showing the difference in opinion I hope to prove there is a difference between \u2018loyalism\u2019 and \u2018unionism\u2019.<\/p>\n

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I would be interested in any personal experiences that people have encountered and none of the information which you would provide me with will be used without full permission. I would greatly appreciate any response from this site and thank you for taking the time to read this.<\/p>\n

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