On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' Dirty Protest Tapa blanda - 1997

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The journalism masterpiece that made history by exposing the reality of Ireland's "dirty protests"
-- Describes a protest that led up to the famed hunger strikes in which ten prisoners died

Here is the authoritative account, first published in 1980, of the H-Block protest: one of the most shocking and controversial situations in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Tim Pat Coogan spoke to all sides and set down the facts of the protest squarely, as well as the human tragedy behind them. The resulting work, recorded in its entirety in On the Blanket, is an unsparing look deep into the social, cultural, and economic maze that makes up Northern Ireland's embattled history. This story is made all the more poignant through the vantage of hindsight: of the momentous hunger strikes that would follow, and of the ongoing troubles that still haunt Northern Ireland.

"... It is a must for anyone interested in the contemporary history of Anglo-Irish relations". -- Sean MacBride, winner of the Nobel Prize