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Apr 2, 2014 · Gender: Male. Best Known For: Bobby Sands was an Irish nationalist who supported the IRA and was sent to prison, where he led a hunger strike. He was elected Member of Parliament during the...
Apr 3, 2021 · Sat Apr 3 2021 - 06:00. On a gable wall on Belfast's Falls Road, Bobby Sands is smiling down. In Ireland and around the world his has become an iconic image, the young man with long hair who is...
Mar 1, 2024 · On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands began his historic hunger strike at HM Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast, a majority loyalist area....
May 5, 2019 · 43 years ago. 1:18. On April 25, 1981, two groups of gathered on the streets of Toronto -- both with opposing views on Bobby Sands. Sands' hunger strike even spurred protests abroad,...
Feb 9, 2010 · On May 5, 1981, imprisoned Irish-Catholic militant Bobby Sands dies after refusing food for 66 days in protest of his treatment as a criminal rather than a political prisoner by British...
May 5, 2011 · Bobby Sands was the first of 10 republican prisoners to die in the 1981 hunger strike. It was a period of huge community tension - some 60 civilians, police and soldiers died in the violence which ...
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.
