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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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Republican hunger strikes in the Maze prison
This episode seriously inflamed the sectarian 'Troubles' in Northern ... demands hadn't been met, a second hunger strike was organised, beginning on 1 March 1981. It was led by Bobby Sands ...