Bobby Sands
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title:
Bobby Sands
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Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested agains
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Irish Provisional IRA member (1954–1981)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands
date created:
2003-06-06T17:17:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T18:45:05Z
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