[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 132 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 132

 Recognizing the historical significance of the sacrifices made by the 
 Irish Republican hunger strikers of 1981 and the subsequent political 
    impact their actions had on the Northern Ireland peace process.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                  May 4 (legislative day, May 3), 2001

  Mr. Capuano (for himself, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Mr. 
Borski, Mr. King, Mr. McGovern, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Crowley, 
and Mr. Gilman) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
              to the Committee on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the historical significance of the sacrifices made by the 
 Irish Republican hunger strikers of 1981 and the subsequent political 
    impact their actions had on the Northern Ireland peace process.

Whereas in a hunger strike in 1981, Irish Republicans Bobby Sands, Francis 
        Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin 
        Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee, and Michael Devine sacrificed 
        their lives to bring world attention to the plight of Irish Republicans 
        in the H-Block in Long Kesh Prison in Northern Ireland;
Whereas the hunger strikers were protesting the conditions of the British prison 
        system in which they were being held and the loss by Irish Republican 
        prisoners of the right to political status;
Whereas Irish Republican prisoners were subjected to repeated beatings, 
        interrogation, sleep deprivation, and other forms of torture, without 
        being convicted of any crime in a jury trial;
Whereas Irish Republican female prisoners being held in Armagh in Northern 
        Ireland were not allowed to hunger strike, but were equally committed to 
        the Republican cause;
Whereas the hunger strikers brought world attention to the political landscape 
        of the Northern Ireland struggle; and
Whereas in April 1981 before dying, the leader of the hunger strikers, Bobby 
        Sands, was elected to the United Kingdom Parliament: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the 
historical significance of the sacrifices made by the Irish Republican 
hunger strikers of 1981 and the subsequent political impact their 
actions had on the Northern Ireland peace process.
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