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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 ...
Bernadette Sands McKevitt (born in November 1958 [1]) ... He died in January 2021 after a long battle with cancer. ... This page was last edited on 15 August 2023, ...
This is a list of notable people who have died in prison, ... Bobby Sands: 1981-05-05 United ... Being 80 years old at the time of her last murder, ...
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).
Incarcerated at the H-Block of Maze Prison and on a hunger strike, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands was elected to the vacant Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat in the British House of Commons, with 30,492 votes for his "Anti-H-Block Party", ahead of Harry West's 29,046 votes. MP Sands would die of starvation on May 5. [36] Born:
His hunger strike began on 15 March 1981, [14] two weeks after Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. He was also the second striker to die, at 5:43pm BST on 12 May, after 59 days without food. [15] His death led to an upsurge in rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland. His cousin Thomas McElwee was the ninth hunger striker to die.
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".
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 ...