‘Our Whole History has been Ruined!’ The 1981 Hunger Strike and the Politics of Republican Commemoration and MemoryFootnote†. The quotation in the title comes from McIntyre (Citation2005); in the wake of allegations made by O'Rawe (Citation2005) concerning the conduct of the hunger strike in 1981, the broad republican community was thrown into confusion and disarray: ‘listening to a 19-year-old woman last evening, born half a decade after the hunger strike, she described the shock to her system [of O'Rawe's allegation] – “Our whole history has been ruined”'.
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