Bobby Sands - Wikipedia
Bobby Sands's grave in Milltown Cemetery. Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze's prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike, aged 27. [38] The original pathologist's report recorded the hunger strikers' causes of death as "self-imposed starvation", amended to simply "starvation" following protests by the dead strikers' families.
Bobby Sands: The hunger strike that changed the course of N …
Apr 30, 2021 · 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.
IRA militant Bobby Sands dies | May 5, 1981 | HISTORY
Feb 9, 2010 · On May 5, 1981, imprisoned Irish-Catholic militant Bobby Sands dies after refusing food for 66 days in protest of his treatment as a criminal rather than a political prisoner by British...
SANDS DIES IN NORTHERN IRELAND JAIL ON THE 66TH DAY …
May 5, 1981 · Robert Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker and Member of Parliament, died early today on his 66th day without food. He had begun his fast in an effort to force the British...
Bobby Sands: Remembering the Irish hunger striker - IrishCentral
May 5, 2024 · After 66 days on hunger strike, Bobby Sands died on May 5, 1981. Three further strikers were to die in the next two weeks: Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, and Patsy O’Hara.
Bobby Sands | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Bobby Sands (born March 9, 1954, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland—died May 5, 1981, HM Prison Maze, near Lisburn, Northern Ireland) was an officer of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who rose to international prominence in 1981 when he embarked on a fatal hunger strike while imprisoned for activities related to the IRA’s armed ...
BBC ON THIS DAY | 5 | 1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison - BBC News
Hunger striker Bobby Sands has died in prison 66 days after first refusing to eat. The 27-year-old republican spent the last days of his life on a water bed to protect his fragile bones. He...
Bobby Sands | Bobby Sands Trust
At 1.17 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5th, having completed sixty-five days on hunger-strike, Bobby Sands MP, died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh. Bobby was a truly unique person whose loss is great and immeasurable. He never gave himself a moment to spare.
Bobby Sands - Death, Quotes & Facts - Biography
Apr 2, 2014 · Only days after slipping into a coma, on the morning of May 5, 1981, Sands died from malnutrition due to starvation. He was 27 years old and had refused to eat for 66 days.
Bobby Sands death marked politicisation of republicans
May 5, 2011 · Bobby Sands was the first of 10 republican prisoners to die in the 1981 hunger strike. It was a period of huge community tension - some 60 civilians, police and soldiers died in the violence...