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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 Trust extends sympathy to family of former Plaid Cymru leader
The Bobby Sands Trust has extended sympathy to ... Some two months after Sands' death in May 1981, Mr Elis-Thomas was the only MP prepared to move the writ for a second by-election.
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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 ...
‘We don’t want her to die’: Family of grandmother on 150 day hunger strike accuse government of ‘gambling’ with her life
Laila Soueif, 68, plans to continue her hunger strike despite being hospitalised with dangerously low blood sugar levels ...
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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 ...