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May 5, 2021 · Forty years ago Bobby Sands was the first of 10 Irish republican hunger strikers to die after refusing food for 66 days. "Martyrs" to many, others saw them as IRA "terrorists". Sands' slow ...
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Robert Gerard Sands ( Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland.
Hunger striker Bobby Sands has died in prison 66 days after first refusing to eat. The 27-year-old republican spent the last days of his life on a water bed to protect his fragile bones. He had been in a coma for 48 hours before being pronounced dead by medical staff at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
