Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; [2] 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while …

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.

Mar 5, 2025 · 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 …

On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later.

Apr 2, 2014 · Bobby Sands was an Irish nationalist who supported the IRA and was sent to prison, where he led a hunger strike. He was elected Member of Parliament during the strike.

Mar 16, 2024 · He was a writer and poet, a member of Parliament, and a volunteer to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). After sixty-six days on hunger strike in the Long Kesh Prison in …

The Irish phrase tiocfaidh ár lá is attributed to Bobby Sands, a prisoner held at Maze Prison and member of the Provisional IRA – an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end …

Bobby Sands was an Irish republican, an IRA Volunteer and a key figure in the fight against British imperialism in the north of Ireland during the 1970s and early 1980s. He came to public …

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 ...

May 5, 1981 · Sands, 27, died in the Maze prison hospital bed where he had been in a coma for 44 hours. His mother, father, sister and brother-in-law together with a Roman Catholic priest...