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  2. Bobby Sands - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of prison deaths - Wikipedia

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    Bobby Sands: 1981-05-05 ... Killed 10 girls and women between 1991 and 1992. ... Being 80 years old at the time of her last murder, ...

  4. 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. 1981 Irish hunger strike - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing - Wikipedia

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    It would not be the last either. In August 1975, the Provisional IRA carried out a shooting and bombing attack against the Bayardo Bar on Aberdeen Street, which killed three men and two women - one aged 17. [11] A deadlier attack took place on 23 October 1993 when a two-man IRA unit from Ardoyne carried a bomb into Frizzell's Fish Shop on the ...

  7. Columbia man charged with murder in domestic violence case ...

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    A Columbia man appeared before Maury County General Sessions Judge Bobby Sands on first degree murder charges in a domestic violence incident.

  8. HM Prison Maze - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. After 35 years, 3 men charged in relation to 1989 Ozarks ...

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    Kelle Ann Workman was 24 years old when she was last seen mowing grass June 30, 1989, at the Dogwood Cemetery in Douglas County, Missouri. ... Douglas County and killed in 1989 only months after ...