May 2006
Nor Meekly Serve My Time
The H-Block Struggle 1976–1981
25th Anniversary Edition
Compiled by Brian Campbell; Edited by Brian Campbell, Laurence McKeown, Felim O’Hagan
‘That evening I said to her, “I’m sorry that all this had to come about for you”.
She leaned across to me and whispered,
“You know what you have to do and I know what I have to do”.
And I understood what she meant.’
This is the story of one of the most remarkable prison protests in history,
told for the first time by the prisoners themselves.
The protest began when a new regime was imposed on political prisoners
in the North of Ireland in 1976.
For five years, hundreds of Irish Republicans in Long Kesh
prison endured deprivation and brutality.
Then in 1981, ten of them died a slow and painful
death on hunger strike.
How and why did it happen?
This book tells the inside story of those prisoners
who refused to be treated as criminals. Using the accounts of men who
lived through and survived those years of protest and hunger strike, it gives a
moving insight into why ten men gave their lives
in pursuit of a political goal.
This 25th anniversary edition includes
a new introduction by Raymond McCartney
and a dedication to the compiler of the original book,
Brian Campbell, who died at the age of 45,
on 8th October 2005.
May 2006
234 x 156mm
298pp plus 16 pages of black and white photos
Paperback
ISBN 1-900960-29-X Price £9.99
