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 manHe 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 ...
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 ...
Members of a Celtic ultra supporters group paid tribute to former senior IRA man Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane ahead of a league match on Tuesday night. It came just hours following his funeral in Belfast, ...
Following IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' election to Westminster in April 1981 the then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher introduced legislation barring prisoners from contesting ...
Labour was distancing itself from John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington in west London, after he praised the "bravery" of the IRA at a commemoration for the hunger striker Bobby Sands in London.
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