biography
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Sands, Bobby
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popular name of Robert Sands
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1954–81)
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| biography:
| Irish revolutionary, born in Belfast, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He joined the IRA in 1972, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for possession of guns (1973). In 1977 he was sentenced to 14 years after the bombing of a furniture factory. In 1981, while at Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland, he went on hunger-strike in protest against the authorities' refusal to treat himself and his fellow-IRA prisoners as ‘political’. He died after 66 days, the first of 10 to die on hunger-strike that summer. |
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