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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...
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,...
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...
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, 2012 · At 1.17 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5th, having completed sixty-five days on hunger-strike, Bobby Sands MP, died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh. Bobby was a truly unique person whose loss is great and immeasurable.
May 5, 2016 · MR BOBBY SANDS, the 27-year-old Republican hunger-strike and Westminster MP, died in the hospital wing of the Maze Prison, Long Kesh, early this morning. Mr Sands, who had just entered his 66th ...
