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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 the H-Blocks who recalls the historic election victory in his recently-published memoir. Jim Jaz McCann s 6000 Days is the ex-prisoner s account of his time on remand in Crumlin Road gaol and serving a 25 year sentence for attempted murder, beginning in 1976. ....
» Danny Morrison DANNY MORRISON was editor of An Phoblacht/Republican News and Sinn Féin Director of Publicity in 1981 and was a key contact between the protesting prisoners in the H-Blocks and the Republican Movement outside the jail. A former republican POW himself, Morrison was elected as a Sinn Féin member of a Six County Assembly in 1982. He became a full time writer in the 1990s. He is secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust. This article first appeared in the Andersonstown News on the 20th anniversary of the election of Bobby Sands. On 9 April, 1981, the people of Fermanagh and South Tyrone went to the polls in a by-election to fill the seat held by the late Frank Maguire, an Independent MP, who died just five days after Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. Upon hearing of his death I doubt if any of us involved in the H-Block/Armagh campaign thought in terms of an election with a prisoner candidate. Firstly, the death of an MP does not automatically give rise to a by ....
• Bobby’s sister Marcella and mother Rosaleen Sands in Enniskillen following the announcement of the by-election result On Thursday, 9 April 1981, Bobby Sands was elected MP for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Sands polled 30,492 votes against unionist candidate Harry West’s 29,046. There were only 3,280 spoilt, highlighting the failure of the SDLP’s and Austin Currie’s attempts to sabotage the campaign. The count, held in Enniskillen Technical College, had attracted crowds of loyalists in a triumphalist mood, no doubt believing the almost-blanket media assertion that Sands had no chance. However, the realisation set in during the course of the count that Bobby Sands would almost certainly be elected. There was a high turnout and low levels of spoilt votes from SDLP strongholds, both factors that were favourable to Bobby Sands. Slowly the loyalists melted away. ....
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