- Paperback: 330 pages
- Publisher: Beacon Press; Reprinted edition edition (Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0807002097
- ISBN-13: 978-0807002094
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.8 x 22.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 718,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A haunting account of the hunger strikes of 1981 and their lingering effects on the troubled peoples of Northern Ireland.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the best book I have found on the subject of the Hunger Strikes of the 1980's. He does a tremendous job of re-creating the pressure that the strikers must have felt and the pain and anguish it caused the families. If anything, I thought that with a name of Padraig O'Malley, a professor at Boston University (or College perhaps, I don't have the book in front of me,) he would be a little more sympthetic to the strikers and the Republicans as a whole.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The difinitive study
19 Nov 1997
Format:Paperback
This is the best book I have found on the subject of the Hunger Strikes of the 1980's. He does a tremendous job of re-creating the pressure that the strikers must have felt and the pain and anguish it caused the families. If anything, I thought that with a name of Padraig O'Malley, a professor at Boston University (or College perhaps, I don't have the book in front of me,) he would be a little more sympthetic to the strikers and the Republicans as a whole.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The best of its kind
28 May 2004
Format:Paperback
I must say I completely disagree with the above reviewers. This book is both comprehensive and detailed. It looks at the hunger strikers in teh context of their culture, their country and their cause. It doesn't have nearly as much of the "oh pity me I went on hunger strike" sentiment that many of the books on the subject, but is far from reviling the strikers. In my own opinion the last thing that Bobby Sands would want is our pity, he would want us to learn something from his efforts and to look at it with a clear eye..something which I think Paidrig does well. It is by far not objective, but objectivity is neither poissible or preferable in my opinion, we all have a lens. I read this in my Irish Studies program at The Evergreen State College and it was one of the best reads ever. It has it's flaws, like all books but I think that for such a sensationalized and under-written subject it is the best available!
11 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Dated Venom
22 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
Biting at the Grave, now justly forgotten, was intended to revile the ten IRA hunger-strikers whose deaths were creating trouble for Thatcher. O'Malley doesn't do a particularly good job of it; the same sort of slander was being done much better by Paul Johnson. O'Malley--whose absurdly Irished-up name is intended to wrap the green vowels 'round his obvious loathing for all things Irish--is only a servile, native auxiliary.
Irish Uncle Toms have never been difficult to find, and for obvious reasons they have no difficulty finding publishers. But even in their grimy company, this would-be author (who's never produced another book, having expended all his venom on this one) stands out as a perfect metonymy for the cruelty, self-serving, and above all the sheer stupidity of the rightwing pseuds of the Reagan/Thatcher era.
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