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Forty years ago on 5 May 1981
Claims-Making and the Construction of Legitimacy: Press Coverage
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A statement on behalf of Bobby Sands the Republican hunger striker in the Maze prison
The IRAs Hunger Game: Game Theory Political Bargaining and the
Figure 3: Campaign poster for IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Bobby Sands Trust). Figure 4: The crowd of over 10000 at Bobby Sands' funeral (Bobby Sands
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In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands' 66-day cameraman at the funeral of Bobby Sands and at many other events during the Maze Prison ...
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When Art Becomes Political: An Analysis of Irish Republican Murals
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Canadian Protest
Sands' hunger strike even spurred protests abroad, including in downtown Toronto, where supporters gathered outside a British Airways office on April 25, 1981. They were joined by counter-protesters who waved the Union Jack, carried placards — and in one case, a mock noose that can be seen in Tibbles' report above — and denounced Sands and his supp...
Who was Bobby Sands?
The CBC's Marks Phillips reports from Northern Ireland on the 29th day of Bobby Sands' hunger strike. In the spring of 1981, a hunger strike involving an IRA prisoner became a story that caught the world's attention. Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP and IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who died in the Maze prison, Belfast. (PA Images/Getty Images)
Where is Bobby Sands memorial?
In Hartford, Connecticut, a memorial was dedicated to Bobby Sands and the other hunger strikers in 1997, the only one of its kind in the United States. Set up by the Irish Northern Aid Committeeand local Irish-Americans, it stands in a traffic island known as Bobby Sands Circle at the bottom of Maple Avenue near Goodwin Park.
Who was John Sands and what did he do?
Around 100,000 mourners came to his funeral, again confounding the expectations of the government, which believed the hunger strike had limited support. To those who marched behind his coffin, Sands was a martyr, Margaret Thatcher a murderer. "Mr Sands was a convicted criminal," the prime minister said. "He chose to take his own life.
Why did Bobby Sands join the IRA?
In late 1971 while working as a barman at the Glen Inn (a pub in Glengormley), Sands approached a man who he knew to be connected to the IRA and told him he would like to join; the man told Bobby to think it over as things in Rathcoole were bad and Catholics in the area were very isolated.
