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The afterlife of Bobby Sands Glowing leftwing tributes to the hunger-striker contrast markedly to the prevailing attitude 40 years ago. Paul Demarty looks at the modern-day paradoxes Last week, a significant anniversary for British and Irish politics was marked - on March 1 1981, Bobby Sands 1, the most celebrated and reviled of the Provisional IRA hunger-strikers, began to refuse food, in protest at their treatment as common criminals. The memorial machines are grinding into gear for this two-month period, which - however much they may have missed Sands and the 10 others who died in the strike - overall proved a spectacular success for the Provisionals. Sands’ election to Westminster, and the funeral parade that drew crowds of 100,000 people, proved beyond all doubt that, in the oppressed Catholic communities of Belfast, Derry and everywhere else, the movement had mass support, and was not, as the relevant governments liked to pretend, an isolated cadre of terrorists, whom m

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