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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...
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,...
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, 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.
