• The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and...
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  • The 1980–1981 Armagh Prison Dirty Protest occurred at the all-women Armagh Prison in Northern Ireland, where prisoners refused to bathe, use the lavatory...
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  • smearing their faeces on the cell walls. This was later referred to as the Dirty protest, part of several acts of disobedience within the "H-Blocks" culminating...
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  • were unable to clear them. This resulted in the blanket protest escalating into the dirty protest, as the prisoners were unable to "slop out" (i.e., empty...
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  • IRA prisoners, and in March 1978 ordered the prisoners to begin the dirty protest. Whilst in prison, Hughes formed a friendship with Shankill Butchers...
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    1981 Irish hunger strike (category 1981 protests)
    convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the...
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  • later dismissed at Derry Magistrates' Court in May 2012. On 7 June 2012, a protest close to Times Square in Manhattan, New York called for Price to be released...
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  • Improvised tactical vehicles Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape Blanket protest Dirty protest HM Prison Maze Anti H-Block 1981 Irish hunger strike Maze Prison...
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  • Nugent, a prisoner in the H-Blocks of HMP Maze. Farrell instigated a dirty protest in February 1980. This meant that prisoners refused to slop out and...
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  • "slop out" (i.e., empty their chamber pots), this escalated into the "dirty protest", wherein prisoners refused to wash and smeared the walls of their cells...
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  • a vow of silence and did not speak for six years. He also staged a dirty protest and re-joined the INLA wing of the prison in 1998, following the Good...
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  • pp. 128-129 McKittrick, Lost Lives, p. 275 Dillon, Martin (2012). The Dirty War. Random House. pp. 49-51 Police Ombudsman's report (2006), pp. 5-6 Bowcott...
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  • Dirty Harry is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays...
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  • served his term in Long Kesh, spending four of those years on the no-wash protest. After his release from prison in 1992 he completed a PhD in political...
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  • convicted after 1 March 1976. This led first to the blanket protest, and then to the dirty protest. Around the same time, Gerry Adams began writing for Republican...
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    magazine's "Room of My Own" feature, it described an IRA prisoner on the dirty protest decorating his cell in "fetching brown". Hislop joined the publication...
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    In Northern Ireland, the flag is often burned by loyalist activists in protest. The Plough and the Stars, the play by Seán O'Casey (1926) Flag of Alaska...
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    lesser extent in the Republic of Ireland since the late 1960s. Rioting, protests, gun battles, sniper attacks, bombings and punishment beatings became part...
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    were unable to clear them. This resulted in the blanket protest escalating into the dirty protest, as the prisoners would not leave their cells to "slop...
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    independent candidate in support of the prisoners on the blanket protest and dirty protest at Long Kesh prison in the 1979 elections to the European Parliament...
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    referred to as human waste or human excreta. Anal hygiene Artist's Shit Dirty protest Fecal–oral route Human right to water and sanitation Improved sanitation...
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    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...
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