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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 ...
She is the younger sister of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker Bobby Sands. [5] ... This page was last edited on 15 August 2023, at 22:14 (UTC).
Pat Finucane's best-known client was the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. He also represented other IRA and Irish National Liberation Army hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze prison protest, Brian Gillen, and the widow of Gervaise McKerr, one of three men shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in a shoot-to-kill incident in 1982.
His first starring role was as famed, tragic IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he earned a slew of awards, followed by his part in Inglourious Basterds.
Bobby Sands: 66 Days premiered at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto on 3 May 2016. It went on general release in Ireland on 5 August 2016, where it set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for an Irish documentary film (€50,933 or £43,300), and the second-highest for any documentary (behind Fahrenheit 9/11).
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".
It was alleged he had been an aide to Owen Carron, election worker for Bobby Sands, and that Gregory Burns' had arranged the killing of his own brother, Sean, in 1982, in one of the "shoot-to-kill" controversies of the 1980s. [4] It was alleged that Burns had been instrumental in foiling many IRA operations in Northern Ireland.
In 2013, Adams' brother Liam was found guilty of 10 offences, including rape and gross indecency committed against his own daughter. [ 112 ] [ 113 ] After the allegations of abuse were first made public in 2009, Gerry Adams alleged that his father had subjected family members to emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.