one small criticism is that it should of been read by someone from the North of Ireland who could pronounce the place names and a few other things properly.

The author tells his story with wry humour starting with how he ended up inside after a bodged up bank robbery for the IRA. In January 1975, a British commission (The Gardiner Commission) made a number of important recommendations. With the document in transit to Belfast, Hughes took the decision to save McKenna's life and end the strike after 53 days on 18 December.That the arrests were arbitrary, the charges based on forced confessions, the remands lengthy, the trials farcical and the sentences totally unjust was incidental,.

Especially seeing as the Sands family have never endorsed the Trust and have pubicily asked for it to be closed down on numerous occasions.Brutal account of both the prison officers abuse but also brutally honest about the failings of IRA leadership on the outside.

He has been married to Bernadette for 40 years, has three grown-up children, and still lives in west Belfast.If they choose to live, the conditions available to them meet in a practical and humane way the kind of things they have been asking for”, said Atkins. The lies, threats and intimidation that were afforded him in the immediate aftermath of this book coming out shows how much truth there actually is in this book and how the Hunger Strikers were actually pawns in a game being played by both the British and Irish Republicans not only at the time but still now in 2010 seeing they are the biggest money maker for Provisional Sinn Fein, and Gerry Adams in person seeing as he is the only one in charge of the Bobby Sands Trust, not even the Sands family are afforded any say in what the Trust does, claims or any money they might make. After ten years, and the release of historical state and personal papers, Richard O'Rawe's assertions in Blanketmen have been vindicated.