Bobby Sands. Sands died on May 5, 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike, but what he and his fellow inmates endured while in person was far more hellish than his deathbed. Severe beatings and cruel ...

BBC journalist Brian Walker describes Bobby Sands' journey from a Protestant housing estate to the Provisional IRA to leader of the second republican hunger strike at the Maze prison in Northern ...

How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement turned ... Jack: Somebody started reading about Bobby Sands and the Irish hunger strikers that took place in the early 80s.

Unlikely as it may sound, two spots in Tehran, Iran pay homage to Bobby Sands, the IRA activist who died while hunger striking in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Perhaps a bit frivolously ...