Michael McKevitt
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Michael McKevitt was an Irish republican and paramilitary leader. He was the Provisional Irish Republican Army's Quartermaster General. Due to the Provisional IRA's involvement in the Northern Ireland
McKevitt appears on the Republican Network for Unity memorial in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast
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
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…of his sentence. McKevitt was married to Bernadette Sands McKevitt, a sister of 1981 Provisional IRA hunger striker and Member of Parliament (MP), Bobby Sands, who died during his hunger strike. Sands McKevitt was a leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and had been described in media reports…
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)