Official site of the Bobby Sands Trust ... Bobby Sands MP ... Twenty-seven-year old Bobby Sands, after enduring years of solitary confinement and beatings, led the 1981 hunger strike, during which he

Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: ), commonly known as Bobby Sands , (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981), was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh). He was...

Hunger striker Bobby Sands dies in the Maze prison 66 days after first refusing to eat. ... Bobby Sands, who had served five years of a 14-year sentence for possessing a gun, began his hunger strike on

Subject: Bobby Sands; From: Neil Lowe; Date: 27 Dec 99 - 04:48 PM ; Over the holidays I don't know why I had been thinking about the potentially explosive political subject of Bobby Sands.

Bobby Sands was born in 1954 in the predominantly Loyalist district of Rathcoole in North Belfast. The eldest of four children, he left school in 1969 and went to work, apprenticing as a coachmaker.

Bobby Sands, the subject of the controversial new film Hunger, shown at Cannes, is hardly a hero to everyone in Ireland, but to republicans he is a potent symbol of self-sacrifice. ... Sarah Sands

The actor who has been feted at Cannes for his starring role as the IRA hunger striker, Bobby Sands, is to play Heathcliff in a film adaptation of Emily Brontë's book, Wuthering Heights. ... Sarah Sands

David Cox: The new film about Bobby Sands' protest at The Maze reveals liberal guilt about Irish woes to be mere self-indulgence ... I didn't have much time for the real Bobby Sands, and I didn't side

Two Irish actors have told how they made history in a record breaking scene in a new film about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, which premieres in Belfast tonight. ... Bobby Sands choose to do this,

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul. ... My heart is very sore because I know that I have broken my poor mother's heart, ... There is no sensation today,