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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Irish Provisional IRA member (1954–1981) Bobby Sands MP Roibeárd Ó Seachnasaigh Sands in Long Kesh, 1973 (aged 18–19) Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone In office 9 April 1981 – 5 May 1981 Preceded by Frank Maguire Succeeded by Owen Carron Personal details Born ...
A mural depicting Bobby Sands still exists on the gable end of the headquarters building of Sinn Féin, on the Falls Road in Belfast. [1] [6] In the Ardoyne area of Belfast, a street mural dedicated to the 1981 hunger strikers on the 25th anniversary of Martin Hurson's death. [7]
Arguably the most well-known and easily identified mural is that of Bobby Sands, on the side wall of Sinn Féin's Falls Road office. A close second is the collection of Irish republican and international-themed murals which are located at what is known as 'The International Wall', also in Belfast.
In the cities, these include Belfast—where a smiling Sands fills an external wall of the Falls Road Sinn Fein office, [300] Dublin, with Yann Goulet's 1983 granite sculpture in Glasnevin Cemetery, [301] and Derry, which gained a new mural in 2000, from the Bogside Artists, depicting local 1980 hunger striker Raymond McCartney as a "Christ ...
The Irish phrase tiocfaidh ár lá is attributed to Bobby Sands, a prisoner of Provisional IRA – an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and the establishment of an independent republic. [17] He uses the phrase in several writings smuggled out of the Maze ...
"It's Going to Happen!" was performed on Top of the Pops on 7 May 1981, shortly after one of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands, died. [5] To mark his death, Damian O'Neill performed the song on Top of the Pops wearing a black armband. [6] [7] [8] The Undertones also performed the song on the 21 May 1981 edition of Top of the Pops. [9]
The Spirit of Freedom is an Irish folk music album by Christy Moore. The album is notable for featuring two songs written by Provisional IRA member Bobby Sands . The songs "Back Home in Derry" and "McIlhatton" were written by Sands while in prison at Long Kesh .
The 1981 Irish hunger strike began on 1 March when Bobby Sands refused food, and by the time the strike ended on 3 October, ten men, including Sands, had starved to death. [11] Two days later, the incoming Northern Ireland Secretary , James Prior , announced a number of changes in prison policy, including that from then on all paramilitary ...