Remember Bobby Sands

Remember Bobby Sands

Irish Nationalism

In 1981, Bobby Sands, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, died along with nine others while on a hunger strike during his imprisonment at the HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. As an advocate for a free Ireland as well as prisoner rights, Sands and his fellow prisoners at HM Prison Maze sought to be categorized as political prisoners, demanded labor rights, access to outside communication, and educational resources. The hunger strike and deaths of Sands and the others received international press, spurring a new wave of IRA recruitment and strenuous public debate around the world.

H-Block & Armagh Committee

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ca. early-1980s

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