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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 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 ...
One of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands wrote poetry throughout the protest. [10] His best known poems include Weeping Winds [11] and The Rhythm of Time. [12] [13] Sands's narratives and various poems appear in the anthology Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song, [14] [15] and his poetry has been set to music by Seán Tyrell for his album A Message of Peace.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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".
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner Bobby Sands (played by John Lynch) led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners, claiming that they should be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. The mothers of two of the strikers, played by Helen Mirren and Fionnula Flanagan, fight to save their sons' lives. When the ...
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.