In 1973, she and her sister were sentenced to life imprisonment in England for their IRA activities. They immediately embarked on a 200-day hunger strike seeking their repatriation to a prison in Ireland. During the hunger strike the sisters were force fed.
Her sister Marian Price was interned in 2011 by an order of the then British Direct Ruler. Marian continues to suffer serious ill health as a result of her hunger strike and remains the subject of a worldwide campaign for her release.
jpr: Irish babes are to be taken seriuosly!
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