"Blanketman" redirects here. For the homeless man known as "Blanketman" or "Blanket man", see Ben Hana.
The blanket protest was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze prison (also known as "Long Kesh") in Northern Ireland. The republican prisoners' status as political prisoners, known as Special Category Status, had begun to be phased out in 1976. Among other things, this meant that they would now be required to wear prison uniforms like ordinary convicts. The prisoners refused to accept the administrative designation of ordinary criminals, and refused to wear the prison uniform.
The blanketprotest 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 blanketprotest, 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 blanketprotest in 1976, when the...
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...
Category Status, in September 1976 IRA prisoner Kieran Nugent began the blanketprotest in the Maze Prison, when hundreds of prisoners refused to wear prison...
regulations. This began with the "blanketprotest" in 1976, in which the prisoners refused to wear prison uniforms and wore blankets instead. In 1978, after a...
where he wrapped himself in the blanket that was on the bed rather than remain naked, beginning the blanketprotest. This was the same action taken by...
wear their own clothes, they did not stage any sort of blanketprotest, but the no wash protest included the smearing of menstrual blood on the cell walls...
Category Status. He refused to wear a prison uniform and joined the blanketprotest. Shortly after arriving in the H-Blocks, Hughes became the O/C of the...
bedsheets. Prisoners participating in the protest were "on the blanket". By 1978, more than 300 men had joined the protest. The British government refused to...
cessation of the IRA's military campaign). Price was a contributor to The Blanket, an online journal, edited by former Provisional IRA member Anthony McIntyre...
and to protest over the recent suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. The march was broken up violently and its leaders imprisoned. The Blanketeers formed...
York Times Gerry Adams Man Of War and Man Of Peace? Anthony McIntyre, The Blanket, 28 April 2004 Interview with Gerry Adams February 2006 Gerry Adams Profile...
protests in Ireland, continuing demonstrations in Ireland Blanketprotest Dirty protest 2008 protests after government budget delivery, including actions by...
were imprisoned by the end of the 1970s and took part in the blanketprotest and dirty protest in pursuit of political status for IRA prisoners. Raymond...
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