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Bobby Sands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: ), commonly known as Bobby Sands , (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981), was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who ...
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Official site of the Bobby Sands Trust ... Bobby Sands MP ... Twenty-seven-year old Bobby Sands, after enduring years of solitary confinement and beatings, led the 1981 hunger strike, during which he was elected as MP for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the north of Ireland.
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www.bobbysandstrust.com/
www.bobbysandstrust.com/
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Irish history, Irish Biographies, Important Irish documents ... Bobby Sands was born in 1954 in the predominantly Loyalist district of Rathcoole in North Belfast. The eldest of four children, he left school in 1969 and went to work, apprenticing as a coachmaker.
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irelandsown.net/bobby.html
irelandsown.net/bobby.html
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BOBBY SANDS was born in 1954 in Rathcoole, a predominantly loyalist district of north Belfast. His twenty-seventh birthday fell on the ninth day of his sixty-six-day hunger strike. His sisters Marcella, one year younger, and Bernadette, were born in April 1955 and November 1958, respectively.
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larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html
larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html
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(On being sentenced, Jennifer McCann said: 'I am a Republican prisoner of war and at the moment my comrade Bobby Sands is on hunger-strike to defend my rights as a political prisoner.') I was touched and proud, she is my comrade.
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larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/diary.html
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Hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in the Maze prison 66 days after first refusing to eat. ... Bobby Sands, who had served five years of a 14-year sentence for possessing a gun, began his hunger strike on 1 March.
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news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_...
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2728000/2728309.stm
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