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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. 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 ...
The leadership did not, in fact, and desperately sent in comms attempting to dissuade Sands from another hunger strike. But Sands intended to "send a clear signal to his own superiors that he 'meant business'". [76] The second hunger strike began on 1 March, when Bobby Sands, the IRA's former officer commanding (OC) in the prison, refused food.
Maguire's death led to a by-election in early 1981, when the 1981 Irish hunger strike was underway. The by-election was seized on by supporters of the hunger strike as a way to register a protest and the leader of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands, was nominated on the label "Anti-H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner".
5 May: Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike. His death caused riots in many parts of Northern Ireland, and also in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 people attended his funeral. [9] 5 May: an IRA volunteer was injured and another arrested in a gun battle in South Armagh.
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 ...
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Mike Lawn/Shutterstock Julian Sands’ cause of death remains unknown weeks after his remains were found on Mount Baldy in Southern California. “The cause is Undetermined due to the condition of ...
The 1981 Irish hunger strike began on 1 March when Bobby Sands refused food, [16] and the dirty protest ended the following day. [17] By the time the hunger strike ended on 3 October, ten men, including Sands, had starved to death. [16]