On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA ... Leo Green, and INLA member John Nixon - were selected to take part. The number seven was chosen as it matched the number of ...
The Bobby Sands Trust has extended sympathy to the family of the Welsh peer who as an MP moved the writ for the by-election that saw Owen Carron elected to Westminster. Dafydd Elis-Thomas ...
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 ...