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Hunger Strike and Force-Feeding of Dolours Price (IRA Prisoner)

In February 1974, the Spectator published a particularly emotive description of the sister’s experiences which equated force feeding with sexual assault. The Spectator asked: How many of us would want to live after being forcibly fed? This is an experience much worse than rape. The emotional assault on the person can be permanently damaging. The calculated administration of an experience such as forcible-feeding to someone who just cannot, or will not, eat is, to me, infernal… This treatment, which the Prices compared to rape and which gave the sisters lifelong anorexia nervosa, disquieted humanitarians (notably the lifelong pacifist Lord (Fenner) Brockway, who visited and corresponded with the sisters throughout their imprisonment). The force-feeding was discontinued on 18 May 1974; the hunger strike continued until 7 June. The International Medical Council subsequently ruled it unethical for doctors to participate in force-feeding. https://www.dib.ie/biography/price-dolours... An ordeal described in graphic terms by Marian Price: Four male prison officers tie you into the chair so tightly with sheets you can’t struggle. You clench your teeth to try to keep your mouth closed but they push a metal spring device around your jaw to prise it open. They force a wooden clamp with a hole in the middle into your mouth. Then, they insert a big rubber tube down that. They hold your head back. You can’t move. They throw whatever they like into the food mixer; orange juice, soup or cartons of cream if they want to beef up the calories. They take jugs of this gruel from the food mixer and pour it into a funnel attached to the tube. The force-feeding takes fifteen minutes but it feels like forever. You’re in control of nothing. You’re terrified the food will go down the wrong way and you won’t be able to let them know because you can’t speak or move. You’re frightened you’ll choke to death. It is more than likely that Dolours Price’s psychological difficulties, in particular her PTSD, had their origin in the ordeal described by Eamon O’Dwyer, especially the memory of the feeding tube passing into his stomach like a snake. British government documents lodged at the official archive at Kew, Surrey record that of the two sisters, Dolours Price suffered most from the forced feeding ordeal: ‘…. the Price sisters’ medical records indicate a large degree of vomiting, mouth abrasions, tooth damage, and fainting attacks. Their doctors insisted that vomiting was a self-induced attemptto rid the stomach of food. One reported that Dolours was particularly prone to vomiting and physical weakness, a problem which he attributed to her erratic mental state (as evidenced by her bouts of weeping and irritability) and her slender build. Despite such justifications, a vivid sense of pain and trauma in the prison medical encounter permeated their reports’. http://idolours.com/i-dolours/life_story/f... On 24 January 2013 Dolours Price was found dead at her Malahide, County Dublin home, from a toxic effect of mixing prescribed sedative and anti-depressant medication. Scene from the documentary I, Dolours (2018)