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Feb 9, 2010 · Bobby Sands was born into a Catholic family in a Protestant area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1954. In 1972, sectarian violence forced his family to move to public housing in a Catholic area, ...
May 5, 2024 · Bobby Sands mural in Belfast: The Hunger Striker who died in 1981. Getty. On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands died at HM Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. He was 27 years old. Sands was born on March 9 ...
Apr 3, 2021 · Bobby Sands had a lot to live for.”. ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’ – Valerie Hetherington, daughter of an IRA victim. Alfie Woods was an RUC officer, farmer and the ...
May 5, 2012 · BOBBY SANDS. Died May 5th, 1981. The revolutionary spirit of freedom. Bobby Sands, Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh, was born in 1954 in Rathcoole, a predominantly loyalist district of north Belfast. His twenty-seventh birthday fell on the ninth day of his sixty-six-day hunger strike. His sisters Marcella, one year younger, and Bernadette ...
In 1978 the prisoners began the no-wash/no slop-out protest which was to last until 1 March 1981, the day that Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. Throughout the protest the prisoners suffered a variety of beatings, brutal anal searches whilst forced to squat over a mirror, solitary confinement, periods on a ‘Number 1’ bread and water diet ...
Aug 5, 2016 · Bobby Sands: 66 Days: Directed by Brendan Byrne, Brendan J. Byrne. With Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins, Aram Bakshian. In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands' 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause.
Oct 31, 2008 · Hunger: Directed by Steve McQueen. With Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon. Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
