Michael Fassbender on playing Bobby Sands in Hunger
Michael Fassbender has done sci-fi, sword-and-sandal and slasher movies. But his latest role, as the IRA hunger striker Bobby ...
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Republican hunger strikes in the Maze prison
Brian Walker profiles the life and death of IRA hunger striker and MP Bobby Sands. BBC journalist Brian Walker describes Bobby Sands' journey from a Protestant housing estate to the Provisional ...
‘We don’t want her to die’: Family of grandmother on 150 day hunger strike accuse government of ‘gambling’ with her life
The frail grandmother has been on hunger strike for more than twice as long as Bobby Sands, the IRA leader who died in prison ...
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From the archive: how The Irish Times reported the hunger strike
The protest began yesterday morning with 26-year-old Provisional IRA prisoner, Bobby Sands, refusing breakfast. Sands, leader of the H-Blocks Provisionals from the start of the last hunger-strike ...
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Ian Bownes: forensic psychiatrist who assessed mental fitness of IRA hunger strikers in the Maze prison
At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...