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The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status (prisoner of war rather than criminal status) for convicted paramilitary prisoners.
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.
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.
Mar 1, 2016 · March 1st: Bobby Sands, the Commanding Officer of IRA prisoners in the Long Kesh/Maze Prison, refused food and so began a new hunger strike. March 2nd: Republican prisoners call off the blanket...
Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland.
Mar 16, 2024 · The Hunger Strikes to restore political prisoner status happened in 1980 and 1981 respectively. During the first strike, Sands was given the title of Commanding Officer of the prisoners when the current one, Brendan Hughes, went on strike.
Apr 3, 2021 · Bobby Sands, “officer commanding” of IRA prisoners in the Maze in 1981, was convinced that to succeed someone had to die. Instead of a group going on hunger strike, prisoners would volunteer ...
