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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. 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 ...
She lived in the mainly loyalist Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey before her family were forced out of their home, when they moved to republican West Belfast. [4] She is the younger sister of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker Bobby Sands .
The BST claims to hold copyright to all the written works of Bobby Sands. The family of Sands has been critical of the BST and they have called for it to disband. [23] Journalist and author Ed Moloney republished an article he had written for the Sunday Tribune highlighting that Bobby Sands' next of kin wanted to take legal action against the ...
Tommy Sands was born on the family farm on the 'Ryan Road' [7] in the townland of Ryan, near Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. [8] His parents, Mick and Bridie, both came from families of singers, musicians and storytellers and encouraged a love of Irish culture and tradition in their seven children (Mary, the eldest, then Hugh, Ben, Colum, Eugene and Anne.
It was alleged he had been an aide to Owen Carron, election worker for Bobby Sands, and that Gregory Burns' had arranged the killing of his own brother, Sean, in 1982, in one of the "shoot-to-kill" controversies of the 1980s. [4] It was alleged that Burns had been instrumental in foiling many IRA operations in Northern Ireland.
His first starring role was as famed, tragic IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he earned a slew of awards, followed by his part in Inglourious Basterds.
Pat Finucane's best-known client was the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. He also represented other IRA and Irish National Liberation Army hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze prison protest, Brian Gillen, and the widow of Gervaise McKerr, one of three men shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in a shoot-to-kill incident in 1982.
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".