Richard O'Rawe

Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s.

In Blanketmen, published in 2005 by New Island, Richard O'Rawe gave his personal and outspoken account of the turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA army council and the prisoners themselves.