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On This Day: Bobby Sands, an IRA prisioner began his history altering hunger stricke
On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later. His death, along with those of nine ...
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Bobby Sands Trust extends sympathy to family of former Plaid Cymru leader
The Bobby Sands Trust has extended sympathy to the family of the Welsh peer who as an MP moved the writ for the by-election that saw Owen Carron elected to Westminster. Dafydd Elis-Thomas ...
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Republican hunger strikes in the Maze prison
The first to die was the IRA leader in the Maze, Bobby Sands. In all, 10 prisoners died before the strike was called off on 3 October 1981. The British government made no public concessions to the ...