Other participants in the hunger strike

Although ten men died during the course of the hunger strike, thirteen other men began refusing food but were taken off it, either due to medical reasons or after intervention by their families deciding that their relative's death would be futile. Many of them still suffer from the effects of the strike with problems including digestive, visual, physical and neurological disabilities.^[22][23]

	Paramilitary affiliation	Strike ended (1981)	Length of strike	Reason for ending strike
Brendan McLaughlin	IRA	26 May	13 days	Suffering from a perforated ulcer and internal bleeding
Paddy Quinn	IRA	31 July	47 days	Taken off by his family
Patrick McGeow	IRA	20 August	42 days	Taken off by his family
Matt Devlin	IRA	4 September	52 days	Taken off by his family
Laurence McKeown	IRA	6 September	70 days	Taken off by his family
Bernard Fox	IRA	24 September	32 days	His medical condition deteriorated
Liam McCloskey	INLA	26 September	55 days	It became clear that his family would intervene to save his life if he became unconscious
Hugh Carville	IRA	3 October	34 days	End of hunger strike
James Devine	IRA	3 October	13 days	End of hunger strike
Gerard Hodgkins	IRA	3 October	20 days	End of hunger strike
Jackie McMullan	IRA	3 October	48 days	End of hunger strike
John Pickering	IRA	3 October	27 days	End of hunger strike
Patrick Sheehan	IRA	3 October	55 days	End of hunger strike

Consequences

The Hunger Strike heralded an upsurge of violence after the comparatively quiet years of the late 1970s, with widespread civil disorder in Northern Ireland and serious unrest in the Republic of Ireland, including rioting outside the British Embassy in Dublin.^[13] There was extensive international condemnation of the British government's handling of the hunger strikes.^[24] It resulted in a new surge of IRA activity, with the group obtaining many more members. It prompted the republican movement to move towards electoral politics � Sands' success combined with that of pro-Hunger Strike candidates in the Northern Ireland local elections and D�il elections in the Republic of Ireland gave birth to the armalite and ballot box strategy. Sinn F�in gained 5 seats out of 78 in the 1982 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and a seat in the 1983 UK general election.^[25] Three years later the IRA tried to take revenge on Margaret Thatcher for her role in the hunger strike with the Brighton hotel bombing, an attack on the Conservative party conference which killed five people.^[24]

Commemorations

Further information: Bobby Sands

The people of Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States dedicated a monument to Bobby Sands and the other hunger strikers in 1997.^[26] The monument stands in a traffic circle known as "Bobby Sands Circle", at the bottom of Maple Avenue near Goodwin Park.^[27]

A street in Paris was named after Bobby Sands, and the Iranian government also named a street running alongside the British embassy in Tehran after Bobby Sands, which was formerly called Winston Churchill Street.^[24][28]

The events of the strike are the basis for the 1996 film Some Mother's Son.

In 2006, a diverse group of Irish Republicans in Chicago, IL came together to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Hunger Strike under the banner "Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee."