Political Manipulations: Death and Urban Graveyards Northern Ireland

In this chapter I study the use, trasmission and reception of (self-inflicted) death in Northern Ireland to show how memories impact upon today's generations and how the political environment conditions their receptivity. I draw on material collected through participant observation, interviews and a survey conducted in a college in which my questions aimed at identifying the role played by the Republican community and the ways in which hunger striking was being portrayed.