03 October 1981,
Irish Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland ended a hunger strike launched seven months earlier. Ten prisoners, the first Bobby Sands, were killed in the fighting that began against the suppression of political prisoner status. The deaths of these young people – for not eating more than 60 days – led to huge protests and disturbances in Ireland.
Margaret Thatcher's government was charged with letting these young people die. Finally, the British authorities accepted a number of requests.