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On This Day: Bobby Sands, an IRA prisioner began his history altering hunger stricke
On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later. His death, along with those of nine ...
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'Bobby Sands was a pawn - and a pawn for an unjustifiable cause': Retired Belfast lecturer reacts to Glasgow rector's speech honouring IRA man
He ended his inaugural speech by saying: “In the words of the immortal Bobby Sands, ‘our revenge will be the laughter of our children’.” Sands was a member of the Provisional IRA who was ...
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Republican hunger strikes in the Maze prison
The first to die was the IRA leader in the Maze, Bobby Sands. In all, 10 prisoners died before the strike was called off on 3 October 1981. The British government made no public concessions to the ...
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Information and Support - Bobby Sands: 66 Days
Wave Trauma Centre offers care and support for anyone bereaved, injured or traumatised through the civil unrest in Northern Ireland, irrespective of religious, cultural or political belief. Cruse ...
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Film round up
On the 35th anniversary year of Bobby Sands’s death comes a powerful documentary that explores both the man and the international iconic figure that he became following his demise, while analysing the ...