The blanket protest was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army...

killed during the five-year protest. On 14 September 1976 newly convicted prisoner Kieran Nugent began the blanket protest, in which IRA and INLA prisoners...

of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the...

what had previously been only a blanket protest morphed into the first of the dirty protests. In the dirty protests, prisoners who were suddenly unable...

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...

where he wrapped himself in the blanket that was on the bed rather than remain naked, beginning the blanket protest. This was the same action taken by...

Look up blanket, blanket insulation, blanket loan, blanket stitch, or wet blanket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A blanket is a large, usually rectangular...

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...

than 500 of them in the Maze prison initiating the "blanket" and "dirty" protests. Their protests culminated in hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981, aimed...

to September 1943. This type of prisoner strike became known as the Blanket protest of the 1970s-80s. He was interned in 1971 along with his son, Gerry...