The Troubles republican prisoners led to more than 500 of them in the Maze prison initiating the "blanket" and "dirty" protests. Their protests culminated in hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981, aimed at the restoration of political status, as well as other concessions. In the 1981 Irish hunger strike, ten republican prisoners (seven from the Provisional IRA and three from the INLA) died of starvation. The first hunger striker to die, Bobby Sands, was elected to Parliament on an Anti-H-Block ticket, as was his election agent Owen Carron following Sands' death. The hunger strikes resonated among many nationalists; over 100,000 people attended
The Hunger Strike (Jeeves and Wooster) The Hunger Strike (Jeeves and Wooster) "The Hunger Strike" is the fourth episode of the first series of the 1990s British comedy television series "Jeeves and Wooster". It is also called "How Does Gussie Woo Madeline? ". It first aired on on ITV. Adapted from "Right Ho, Jeeves". Aunt Dahlia coerces Bertie into handing out the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School by threatening to withhold the services of her master chef, Anatole, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. Bertie tries to sort out Tuppy Glossop and Angela Travers's relationship, Gussie