Twenty-five years ago, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after a sixty-six day hunger strike. Today political prisoners from Guantánamo to Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe continue to use hunger to draw ...

A mural of Bobby Sands in republican wester Belfast in Northern Ireland – Copyright AFP Paul FAITH Forty years ago Bobby Sands was the first of 10 Irish republican ...

On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands died on hunger strike in protest against British rule in the Maze prison. He had fasted for 66 days before succumbing. Prior to his death, he was elected as member of ...

Irish nationalist and British MP Bobby Sands died in 1981, 66 days into a hunger strike. Sands's story is different from those of other Fenian heroes because most of his exploits were not in the field ...

No further action is being taken over a statue of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands erected without planning permission, Belfast City Council has said. The local authority launched an investigation last ...

Irish Republicans on Friday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), who died in jail after a 66-day hunger strike. Sands has come to ...

James McClean invoked Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands after a beer was thrown at him during the Wrexham - Birmingham City soccer match at St. Andrew's Stadium in England last night, Monday, September ...

THE last six weeks of the life of republican hunger striker Bobby Sands (right) are to be the subject of a film from FilmFour. Hunger will focus on Sands' last days in 1981 at the Maze prison near ...

A statue has been unveiled in memory of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in Belfast, marking the 44th anniversary of his death. The statue of the hunger striker and former MP was revealed at the ...