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Bobby Sands Robert Gerard Sands ( Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; [2] 9 March 1954 - 5 May 1981) was a member (and leader in the Maze prison) [3] of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland.


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43 years ago 0:37 The CBC's Mark Phillips reports on the election of Bobby Sands to the British House of Commons. And on April 10, the imprisoned Sands would, improbably, win that seat in.


Bobby Sands funeral 1981 The Troubles, Northern Ireland 1980s. Crowds gather in procession to

Kate Adie reports on the funeral of Bobby Sands in Belfast where he is buried with the full paraphernalia of an IRA military funeral. Tens of thousands of people from the north and south of.


Bobby Sands funeral 1981 The Troubles, Northern Ireland 1980s. Crowds gather in procession to

Sinn Fein have disputed claims that IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was buried in Belfast against his last wishes. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the 40th anniversary of Sands' death, the.


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MR BOBBY SANDS, the 27-year-old Republican hunger-strike and Westminster MP, died in the hospital wing of the Maze Prison, Long Kesh, early this morning. Mr Sands, who had just entered his.


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Forty years ago, on 5 May 1981, 27-year-old Bobby Sands, the IRA's leader in the Maze prison outside Belfast, starved himself to death.


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May 8, 1981 Tens of thousands of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholics turned out in a cold rain for the slow, military-style funeral procession of Provisional Irish Republican Army militant Bobby.


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1981. War and Conflict. On 5 May 1981 Bobby Sands died in the Maze Prison after 66 days on hunger strike. Two days later he was laid to rest at Milltown cemetery in West Belfast. 'Today Tonight.


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Footage from Bobby Sands funeral 1981.


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IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral after 66 days on hunger strike, may 1981 Northern Ireland Conflict Videos 8.45K subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 4.8K views 1 year ago reports on the.


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At 1.17am on the morning of May 5th 1981, Vol. Bobby Sands died on hunger strike after 66 days, he was 27 years old. Remembering that sad time his close fri.


Bobby Sands funeral 1981 The Troubles Northern Ireland 1980s. Crowds gather in procession to

Bobby Sands was born into a Catholic family in a Protestant area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1954.. Fighting raged for days in Belfast, and tens of thousands attended his funeral on May 7.


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0:00 / 3:34 IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' funeral, while unionists hold a peaceful rally to remember victims. Northern Ireland Conflict Videos 7.27K subscribers 26K views 1 year ago 7th May.


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Bobby Sands's name now joins the list of martyrs to the IRA cause who have chosen to die in this peculiarly Irish form of political protest. Irish Republicans have been starving themselves to.


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1. Bobby Sands was the first hunger striker to die in the 1981 hunger strike 2. He died May 5, 1981, after 66 days without food 3. He was in a coma for 48 hours before being pronounced dead by medical staff at the Maze prison, Co. Antrim 4.


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Bobby Sands's grave in the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery, west Belfast, on the 40th anniversary of his death on May 5 1981. Picture by Mal McCann Bobby Sands's grave in the republican plot.