Bobby Sands

40 Years: The Start of the Second Hunger Strike

Blog, Archive Find, Research / By Ciarán MacAirt

March 1st 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the second hunger strike. It began when Bobby Sands, the Officer Commanding Irish Republican Army prisoners in the Maze Prison, refused food. At the start of the second hunger strike, Republican prisoners called off the Blanket Protest which began in 1976. This was reported […]

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The Anniversary of the Death of Bobby Sands

Archive Find, Blog, Media / By Ciarán MacAirt

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands who was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. He died after 66 days on hunger strike, protesting within the British prison system for status as a Republican prisoner of war and not a criminal. He had been elected as a Member of the British

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