Remember Bobby Sands
Title
Remember Bobby Sands
Subject
Irish Nationalism
Description
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.
Creator
H-Block & Armagh Committee
Source
Roz Payne
Publisher
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
ca. early-1980s
Format
Button
Type
Physical Object
Collection
Citation
H-Block & Armagh Committee, “Remember Bobby Sands,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed October 12, 2024, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/225.