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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 ...
Kenny Donaldson adds that the incident happened 6 months after Sands was released in 1976, and that he and three other IRA men were arrested after the bombing of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry, “There was a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Leaving behind the two wounded, the remaining four tried to escape by car, but ...
"Back Home in Derry" is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. [1] [2]The song has been covered by multiple artists, most notably by Christy Moore in his 1984 album Ride On, who sang it to a melody inspired by Gordon Lightfoot's famous 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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).
There were no casualties. Three IRA volunteers were arrested not far from the scene of this attack with one, Bobby Sands, imprisoned for possessing a gun as a result. [22] Sands' fellow hunger striker, Joe McDonnell, was also arrested following this incident. [23] Sands and McDonnell had jointly planned the bomb attack. [24]
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's Going to Happen!" was performed on Top of the Pops on 7 May 1981, shortly after one of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands, died. [5] To mark his death, Damian O'Neill performed the song on Top of the Pops wearing a black armband. [6] [7] [8] The Undertones also performed the song on the 21 May 1981 edition of Top of the Pops. [9]
One Day in My Life is an autobiographical novel written by Bobby Sands while serving a fourteen-year sentence at Long Kesh, for possession of a gun as a member of the Irish Republican Army. The novel was originally written on "toilet paper with a biro refill... hidden inside Sands' own body" during the winter of 1979. [1] and first published in ...