Communicative rather than coercive : re-interpreting the strategies of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and the state up till the hunger strike of 1981 during the Northern Irish troubles

• Main Author: Ho, Hui Qi
• Other Authors: Scott M. Anthony
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69768
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper attempts to reframe the strategies taken by the Provisional Irish Army Republicans (PIRA) during the Northern Irish conflict (1966-1999) as communicative strategies. The most dramatic success came through the Hunger Strike of 1981, in which the first hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected...