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	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Bobby Sands was born in 1954 in the predominantly Loyalist district of Rathcoole in North Belfast.
		Bobby Sands was only 27 years old when he died while on hunger strike in the H blocks of Long Kesh prison in May 1981.
		Bobby Sands was a believer in the spirit of the common man. He revered the ability of the common man to triumph against all odds.
	irelandsown.net /bobby.html (976 words)

	Bobby Sands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sands was the leader of the hunger strike and had been elected as a Member of Parliament during his fast.
		A mural depicting Bobby Sands, on the gable wall of the Sinn Féin headquarters on the Falls Road, Belfast.
		Sands' sister Bernadette Sands McKevitt is a prominent Republican who is no longer aligned with the Provisional movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Sands (1918 words)

	INA/Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 25
		Old Bobby also got the screws angry on occasion, such as when he commented to one that he had to clean up Bobby’s hospital room really well today, "After all, we have an MP in the wing now." Old Bobby’s good nature didn’t spare him the glares of the prison personnel who heard that remark.
		On the day before Bobby Sands died, and he was coming in an out of coma, Old Bobby, the Sean Fhear, was in the TV room while the Sands family were by Bobby’s side.
		Bobby asked for Old Bobby and once he recognized him, said, "Bobby, I’m going to die but I want to thank you for all you have done for me and the other lads, We will never forget you; you are a real gentleman." Old Bobby held young Bobby’s hand and cried.
	www.inac.org /irishhistory/hungerstrikes/chapters/25 (1454 words)

	Bobby Sands, MP
		Bobby Sands, MP Bobby Sands was born in 1954 to Irish Catholic parents.
		When Sands was seven, the neighbors discovered that the Sands family was Catholic and harassed them until they were forced to move to avoid having to take the issue to court.
		Tuesday, May 5th, the 66th day of his strike, Bobby Sands died in the prison hospital of the H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison, having sacrificed his life to a cause in which he believed wholeheartedly, for the sake of which he was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~kcomroe/sands.htm (1486 words)

	Hunger Strikers :: Bobby Sands
		Bobby recalled his mother speaking of the troubled times which occurred during her childhood; "Although I never really understood what internment was or who the 'Specials' were, I grew to regard them as symbols of evil".
		Bobby had served two years of his apprenticeship when he was intimidated out of his job.
		Bobby became PRO for the blanket men and was in constant confrontation with the prison authorities, which resulted in several spells of solitary confinement.
	www.bobbysandstrust.org /hstrikers/sands.asp (2010 words)

	Remembering Bobby Sands
		But the life of Bobby Sands is ultimately an inspiring story of how he overcame the most extreme forms of oppression to express his own personal freedom and the collective freedom of his fellow prisoners by building solidarity, raising morale, and leading very effective and creative forms of protest.
		By the time Sands got back to his cell that night after visiting the hunger strikers in the prison hospital, he vowed that he would lead a new hunger strike and this time it would be to the death.
		Bobby tried to introduce these ideas into his own community of Twinbrook during the six months of his adult life when he was not in prison.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /May2006/grubacic0506.html (2586 words)

	Starry Plough: Bobby Sands, of the Twinbrook "Liberty" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Bobby Sands, IRA Volunteer and MP in that order as far as he was concerned, inspired as much attention and admiration as any other Irish or international hunger striker.
		The Sands family were intimidated out of their home by UDA-orchestrated terror and Bobby was forced out of his job for the same reason and by the same people.
		Bobby knew the pitfalls and the pressures, psychological as well as physical, and he was determined to resist them unless the five demands were conceded.
	www.irsm.org /history/starryplough/bobby_sands.html (490 words)

	Review: Bobby Sands Nothing but an Unfinished Song \| The Socialist 25 - 31 May 2006
		Like many working-class youth, Sands was let down by the leaders of the labour and trade union movement, who failed to take a lead in the civil rights struggle, allowing right-wing nationalists and unionists to dominate 'politics'.
		Sands also learnt to speak and write fluently in the Irish language, which he then taught to other prisoners (partly so they could communicate without the prison warders understanding).
		Sands argued that armed struggle was not enough and called for "grass roots" politics in local communities.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2006/441/pp10.htm (1406 words)

	SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Bobby Sands (1954-1981)
		Bobby Sands was born in Rathcoole, north Belfast.
		Sands was released in April, 1976 and rearrested in October, 1976.
		Sands was sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment with the status of 'ordinary prisoner' in September, 1977.
	www.searcs-web.com /sands.html (1815 words)

	1981 Irish Hungerstrikers
		The sectarian realities of ghetto life materialised early in Bobby's life when at the age of ten his family were forced to move home owing to loyalist intimidation even as early as 1962.
		Bobby recalled his mother speaking of the troubled times which occurred during her childhood; 'Although I never really under stood what internment was or who the 'Specials' were, I grew to regard them as symbols of evil '.
		Bobby had gone around with Catholics and Protestants, but it ended up when everything erupted, that the friends he went about with for years were the same ones who helped to put his family out of their home.
	larkspirit.com /hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html (2136 words)

	SAOIRSE32 :: Remembering Bobby Sands :: May :: 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Before the hunger strike, Sands and other prisoners had staged years of protests in the Maze but Mrs Thatcher was adamant the IRA should be treated as common criminals.
		The world’s image of Sands was largely based on a photograph taken in the prison which showed him in a smiling group of prisoners, his fair hair at rock-star length.
		“When Bobby Sands began to say they needed to go on a hunger strike we argued, and I actually wrote to him, saying we were morally and strategically and tactically and physically opposed to it.
	saoirse32.blogsome.com /2006/05/05/remembering-bobby-sands-2 (1377 words)

	The Irish Rebel Music Of Pádraig Mór (Saoirse & Shebeen) \| Fuair siad bas son na hEireann
		Bobby died on the 5th of May 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike to gain recognition for himself and his comrades as political prisoners.
		Bobby had joined the IRA and in October 1972 he was arrested and charged with possession of four shortarms which were found in a house.
		In the ensuing by-election Bobby stood on a ‘political prisoner’ ticket and was elected to the british parliament in a blaze of publicity.
	www.padraigmor.com /marcellasandsbio.htm (1708 words)

	Bobby Sands: how ordinary people become ‘terrorists’\|18Mar06\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Sands and the other hunger strikers were ordinary working class Catholics who found themselves up against the extraordinary violence and repression of the British state.
		Sands was particularly impressed in early 1969, when a group of students from Queens University in Belfast set off on a civil rights march to Derry.
		Bobby was their travel agent and their guide and these stories, perhaps more than any other aspect of his seemingly tireless efforts to organise the prison struggle, turned him into their leader.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=8459 (2414 words)

	CAIN: Events: Hunger Strike: Sands, Bobby. (1991), Prison Poems
		BOBBY SANDS was twenty seven years old when he died on the sixty sixth day of hunger-strike in the H-Block prison hospital, Long Kesh, on the 5th May 1981.
		Shortly after Bobby went on hunger-strike the independent MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Frank Maguire, who was a champion of the prisoners’ cause, died of a heart attack.
		Bobby draws comparisons between the pleasures of life — dancing, falling in love, walking in the countryside, basking in the sun — with the terrible conditions in the H-Blocks.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/hstrike/sands/sands81.htm (2770 words)

	Amazon.com: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison: Books: Bobby Sands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It is 15 years since Sands, the 27-year-old leader of IRA prisoners in Belfast's Long Kesh Prison who was elected to the British Parliament while behind bars, became the first of 10 prisoners to die of self-imposed hunger, protesting the Thatcher government's treatment of IRA inmates as criminal, not political, prisoners.
		In the section "A Day in my life", Bobby tells us about the routine harrassment that the Republican prisoners would have to endure, the sheer brutality and naked harshness of their oppressors who in their cruelty and naivety could not possibly understand what it was that the prisoners were going through.
		Bobby Sands, equipped with only a contraband ballpoint pen refill cartridge and toilet paper, wrote some of the most affecting and powerful poetry of this century.
	www.amazon.com /Bobby-Sands-Writings-Prison/dp/1570981132 (1683 words)

	Strabane Ógra Shinn Féin Remember Bobby Sands! - Indymedia Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 25th Anniversary of the death on Hunger strike of brave Irish soldier Bobby Sands was marked in Ballycastle, North Antrim with a whole weekend of events.
		Members of the Sands family are known to disagree with the path Sinn Fein have taken in recent years in efforts to establish peace.
		Although it is 25 years since bobby died his legacy lives on and continues to inspire a new generation of republican youth, myself included who were not born at the time of the hunger strikes.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/75949 (4177 words)

	A History of Ireland in Song
		Bobby Sands MP was an Irish patriot and IRA Volunteer.
		He was the first to die during the 1981 H Block Hunger Strike, at the age of 27.
		In Cuba Fidel Castro said "the Irish patriots are in the process of writing one of the most heroic pages in human history." In Paris, the French Foreign Minister, Claude Cheysson, spoke publicly of the "supreme sacrifice" which the hunger strikers had made, going on to state that their courage demanded respect.
	ireland.dyn.dhs.org /Bobby_Sands.html (210 words)

	In memory of Bobby Sands - World Cultures European (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Bobby was born in 1954 in Rathcoole, a predominantly loyalist district of north Belfast.
		Bobby recalled his mother speaking of the troubled times which occurred during her own childhood: "Although I never really understood what interment was or who the 'Specials' were, I grew to regard them as symbols of evil."
		In the H-Blocks, beatings, long periods in the punishment cells, starvation diets and torture were commonplace as the prison authorities, with the full knowledge and consent of the British administration, imposed a harsh and brutal regime on the prisoners in an effort to break their resistance to criminalization.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /AMisc/BobbySands.html (2288 words)

	Irlandinitiative Heidelberg - History: Saving 'Bobby Sands Street'
		THE name Bobby Sands is known throughout the world, symbolising the heroism of an Irish prisoner and his comrades who died on hunger strike in their unequal fight against their British jailors.
		Bobby Sands was an Irish patriot and martyr and an elected representative of the Irish People.
		THE name Bobby Sands is known throughout the world, symbolising the heroism of an Irish prisoner and his comrades in the unequal fight against their British jailors.
	www.irlandinit-hd.de /sub_misc/bsands.htm (1401 words)

	Irish KC : A Blog: Bobby Sands :: Kansas City Irish Festivals, Music, Pubs, & Events
		By then Sands had been elected to the British parliament and when I attended Ireland international soccer games chants of "Bobby Sands, MP" were common and would continue for at least two years.
		When Sands died his Westminster seat was up for re-election and was won by his election agent Owen Carron, as the British government had rushed through legislation to prevent more prisoners from standing for election.
		Thirteen years after Bobby Sands death, when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was announced, I remember walking by a graffiti-free wall in Dublin that night, and feeling elated.
	irishkc.com /2006/05/bobby-sands.htm (1030 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Sands has come to be considered a martyr by the Republican movement whose quest for Irish reunification divided the Northern Irish community, currently trying to achieve a lasting peace in a power-sharing agreement between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
		Twenty-seven-year-old Sands was the first to die, on May 5, 1981, and the last was Michael Devine, on August 20 of that year.
		Brendan McFarlane, the former IRA camp commander of the Maze prisoners at the time, said: “For us in the prison, it was a hard brutal five years which terminated with the death of 10 very courageous Republicans who gave their lives to ensure the Republican struggle would not be criminalised.
	www.timesofoman.com /newsdetails.asp?newsid=29347 (514 words)

	Irish Democrat : Features : Bobby Sands: an international icon
		Bobby was particularly interested in Afro-American history and today, contemporary Black activists show great interest in his life.
		Bobby's strength was his ability to reinvent himself.
		Bobby Sands 'the man' as well as 'the activist' comes across in the book.
	www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /features/bobby-sands-an-international-icon (919 words)

	HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE WEB PROJECT
		Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland
		Bobby Sands: Irish Rebel: A Self-Portrait in Poetry and Polemics Issued on the 10th Anniversary of His Death
		Around the world, people know the names of Bobby Sands, Patsy O'Hara, Mickey Devine, etc. Songs are written about the hunger strikers, and plays and movies are produced to keep their memory alive.
	larkspirit.com /hungerstrikes (813 words)

	Bibliofemme: One Day in my Life by Bobby Sands
		While Sands was on hunger strike he was elected MP to Westminister for Fermanagh and South Tyrone but died soon after, on 5 May 1981, after sixty-six days on hunger strike.
		It is a snapshot of a day in what Sands described as a "stinking, smelly tomb", where the value of a packet of tissues, a tiny ball of tobacco or a cell-bound sing-song at night is inestimable.
		Sands was an ordinary man who did the extraordinary thing of dying for his beliefs although, from the account in this book, living for them was almost more difficult.
	www.bibliofemme.com /others/bobbysands.shtml (1161 words)

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