Tom Griffin (London, OK): Steve McQueen's award-winning film about the 1981 hunger strike prompted mixed opinions on OurKingdom. Both Michael Calderbank and Arthur Aughey noted an absence of wider political context in the film. Calderbank nevertheless found much to be admired in Hunger, while Aughey was more critical of a lack of Protestant perspectives.
The politics of the hunger strikes will be very much up for debate on Saturday, when the Rio Cinema in Hackney hosts a special screening of the film, followed by a discussion with Seanna Walsh, who succeeded Bobby Sands as leader of the republican prisoners in the H-blocks.
