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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 ...
Their son Gearoid was born in 1973, [110] went on to play Gaelic football for Antrim GAA senior men's team and became its assistant manager in 2012. [ 111 ] In 2013, Adams' brother Liam was found guilty of 10 offences, including rape and gross indecency committed against his own daughter.
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.
The Bobby Sands Trust was formed after the 1981 Hunger Strike where ten republican prisoners died due to their hunger strike against the UK Government. The legal firm Madden & Finucane continues to act for the Trust whose original members were Gerry Adams, Danny Morrison, Tom Hartley, Tom Cahill, Marie Moore and Danny Devenny.
Tommy Sands was born on the family farm on the 'Ryan Road' [7] in the townland of Ryan, near Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. [8] His parents, Mick and Bridie, both came from families of singers, musicians and storytellers and encouraged a love of Irish culture and tradition in their seven children (Mary, the eldest, then Hugh, Ben, Colum, Eugene and Anne.
Dolours Price was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] [2] She and her sister, Marian, also an IRA member, were the daughters of Albert Price, a prominent Irish republican and former IRA member from Belfast [3] and Christina (née Dolan), a member of Cumann na mBan.
In 2009 Ladd created Ras Goffa Bobby Sands/The Bobby Sands Memorial Race, a 50-minute theatrical piece about the Irish hunger striker, Bobby Sands. The play, staged on a giant running machine, toured Wales. [6] The performance left Wales, with The Independent reviewing her appearance at 'The Place', London. The audio content is in English and ...
In preparation for his role as Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's 2008 film Hunger, Fassbender adopted a diet that restricted him to 600 calories a day, weighing 125 pounds (57 kg) as Sands. [23] Regarded as his breakthrough, [24] [25] his performance earned him the British Independent Film Award. [26]