Ex-POW Laurence McKeown on the Irish republican prisoner struggle after the 1981 hunger strike
Laurence McKeown—Irish Republican, former hunger-striker, writer—was on Montreal community radio station CKUT’s Prison Radio Show recently to discuss And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete, his second prison memoir. This book covers the period after the 1981 hunger strike on which 10 republicans died in the struggle against British criminalization. …