Some of the hunger strikers felt betrayed.

Looking Back in Anger


"I don't think it's been worth it. If someone had told me 20 years ago, you're going to go to jail, you're going to get tortured, you're going to go on hunger strike, you're going to watch loads of men dying to get this... I'd have told them to forget it."

"We were decommissioned with nothing," says Hughes. "IRA men and women, who gave everything to this struggle, got poverty, premature death, and mental problems in return.

They carried a lot of guilt too. The hunger strikes took a huge toll of those who took part and of their loved ones.

The suffering of EVERYONE on all sides makes me feel sad.