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On this day, March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands began his historic 66-day hunger strike while imprisoned in Long Kesh, Northern Ireland.

Remembering Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands who died on this day Remembering Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands who died on this day On this day, Bobby Sands died while campaigning for political prisoner status for IRA prisoners at Long Kesh. Frances Mulraney Facebook Comments On this day, May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands died after mounting a historic 66-day hunger strike while imprisoned in Long Kesh, Northern Ireland. Bobby Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast, a majority loyalist area. His family had succeeded in living reasonably peacefully in ...

Bobby Sands' historic election victory recalled in Jim 'Jaz' McCann's prison memoir Bobby Sands was elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone 40 years ago. Picture by Alan Lewis/Photopress 09 April, 2021 01:00 Jim 'Jaz' McCann recalls Bobby Sands' election victory as 'one of the best most unforgettable moments' of his life. Picture by Hugh Russell BOBBY Sands' victory in Fermanagh and South Tyrone 40 years ago today gave the republican movement a "victory that not even countless IRA military operations could have achieved", according to a former prisoner in th...