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Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze's prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike, aged 27. [38] The original pathologist 's report recorded the hunger strikers' causes of death as "self-imposed starvation", amended to simply "starvation" following protests by the dead strikers' families.
Apr 30, 2021 · Forty years ago, on 5 May 1981, 27-year-old Bobby Sands, the IRA's leader in the Maze prison outside Belfast, starved himself to death.
May 9, 2024 · Bobby Sands (born March 9, 1954, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland—died May 5, 1981, HM Prison Maze, near Lisburn, Northern Ireland) was an officer of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who rose to international prominence in 1981 when he embarked on a fatal hunger strike while imprisoned for activities related to the IRA’s ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Bobby Sands was an Irish nationalist who supported the IRA and was sent to prison, where he led a hunger strike. He was elected Member of Parliament during the strike.
May 5, 2019 · Forty years ago, Bobby Sands led a protest effort with the aim of having himself and other members of the Irish Republican Army treated as political prisoners, rather than imprisoned criminals.
Apr 3, 2021 · On a gable wall on Belfast's Falls Road, Bobby Sands is smiling down. In Ireland and around the world his has become an iconic image, the young man with long hair who is forever fixed in time...
May 5, 2016 · Bobby Sands, the first of 10 republican prisoners to die after the hunger strikes, died from malnutrition 26. He was married to Geraldine Noade, with whom he had one son, Gerard
May 5, 2011 · The Banging of bin lids and the shrill sound of whistles announced the death of Bobby Sands on the streets of west Belfast on 5 May 1981. It was the 66th day of his hunger strike. The member of...
May 5, 2012 · At 1.17 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5th, having completed sixty-five days on hunger-strike, Bobby Sands MP, died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh. Bobby was a truly unique person whose loss is great and immeasurable.
Feb 9, 2010 · On May 5, 1981, imprisoned Irish-Catholic militant Bobby Sands dies after refusing food for 66 days in protest of his treatment as a criminal rather than a political prisoner by British...
