The H-Block Struggle 1976-1981,The story of one of the most remarkable prison,protests in history, told for the first time by,the prisoners themselves. the protest began when a,new regime was imposed on political prisoners in,the North of Ireland in 1976. For five years,hundreds of Irish Republicans in Long Kesh prison,endured deprivation and brutality, which,culminated in a hunger strike resulting in the,deaths of 10 men in 1981.