Well-known novelists and poets, former prisoners and activists reflect upon the deaths of the 10 Republican hunger strikers that proved a turning point in relations between Britain and Ireland. Published on the 25th anniversary of the ending of the hunger strike, most of the pieces contained within have been specially commissioned. Includes work by David Beresford, Tom Hayden, John Montague, Roy Greenslade, Eugene McCabe, Ulick O'Connor, Neil McCafferty, Peter Sheridan, Timothy O'Grady and Christie Moore.