Anti H-Block
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Anti H-Block was the political party label used by candidates standing in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in support of the 1981 hunger strike.
The leader of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands was nominated in the April 1981 by-election in Fermanagh & South Tyrone. After his victory and death, legislation was quickly passed to prevent "convicted felons" from standing for Parliament in the UK, so his agent Owen Carron stood as a "Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner" and won the seat in the subsequent by-election.
In the Republic, Anti H-Block candidates, Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew won two seats in the 1981 general election.
The successes of the Anti H-Block movement galvanised the hardline Irish Republican movement and led to the formal entry into electoral politics of Provisional Sinn Féin the following year.
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