The forgotten story of Cork's hunger strikers is to be told for the first time 

Local historian Conor Kenny has written a book that tells of the strikers' campaign and the nine men who survived. 

Author Conor Kenny and Claire Cronin examine a key from Goals Cross. Pictured at a preview of the forthcoming Cork Public Museum exhibition “Enduring the Most – The Life and Times of Tomás Mac Curtain and Terence MacSwiney”. Conor is writing a book, funded by Cork City Council, on the Cork Hunger Strikers who began their campaign in Cork Prison on 11th August 1920. His grandfather Joseph Kenny was one of the surviving hunger strikers.”Picture: Clare Keogh

The forgotten century-old story of the survivors of a 94-day hunger strike in Cork Prison, which helped put Ireland on the road to independence, is set to be told for the first time.

Details were announced today - the centenary of the start of the 1920 Cork Prison hunger strike - of a new book on the nine survivors.