Now that Martin McGuinness is doing grinning photo-ops alongside Ian Paisley, the world of the hunger strikes and dirty protests of the early 1980s seems a very long time ago. Steve McQueen's film Hunger painfully and powerfully re-enacted the Maze prison campaign and made Cannes festivalgoers live through the ordeal of hunger striker Bobby Sands, played uncompromisingly by Michael Fassbender. It delivered a profound shock, not least the shock of recognising how much has changed, and how in our era of suicide bombings, the debate over terrorism has changed radically... [article continues]
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