Bobby Sands
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Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furni
Sands in Long Kesh, 1973 (aged 18–19)
Bobby Sands's grave in Milltown Cemetery
Memorial to 22 Irish Hunger Strikers Deaths Glasnevin Cemetery
The Éire Nua flute band, "inspired by Bobby Sands' ideals," commemorates the 1916 Easter Rising on its 91st anniversary (2017)
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in N
Bobby Sands
…Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing…
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, who was twice chief-of-staff of the pre-1969 IRA during the Border campaign of 1956–1962, was a member of the first Army Council of the Provisional IRA in 1969.
Martin McGuinness was part of an IRA delegation which took part in peace talks with British politician William Whitelaw, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in July 1972.
Memorial to the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings, which killed twenty-one people in November 1974
An IRA political poster from the 1980s, featuring a quote from Bobby Sands written on the first day of the 1981 hunger strike