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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 prison cell during the dirty protest. The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) [1] was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland.
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 ...
Bobby Sands, the leader of the Provisional IRA prisoners, began a second action on 1 March 1981. Outside the prison, in a major publicity coup, Sands was nominated for Parliament and won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election. But the British government still resisted and on 5 May, after 66 days on hunger strike, Sands died.
Died: Michael Devine, 27, the tenth and last casualty of the Maze Prison hunger strikers. Owen Carron, running for the IRA the same day in the by-election for the Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency that had been held by Bobby Sands, won a place in the House of Commons. [54]
Anderson was held on felony theft charges and an out-of-county arrest warrant, according to Boulder County News. Friends and family of the woman told the Denver Post that she had a heart condition. Witnesses also reportedly said her cries for help were ignored, and she was mocked by an officer. Jail or Agency: Boulder County Jail; State: Colorado
More than 130 women who were formerly inmates at prisons for women in California have filed suit, saying guards sexually abused them. 'Every woman's worst nightmare': Lawsuit alleges widespread ...
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.