On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, died after 66 days on hunger strike. His death, along with those of nine other hunger strikers, sent shockwaves ...

Poster with images of Irish Republican Army prisoners held in Long Kesh Detention Centre (now Her Majesty's Prison Maze), to raise awareness for the 1980-81 Irish hunger strike, distributed by the ...

A mural of Bobby Sands in republican wester Belfast in Northern Ireland - Copyright AFP Paul FAITH A mural of Bobby Sands in republican wester Belfast in Northern ...

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 ...

This video examines the 1981 IRA hunger strikes, Bobby Sands’s election and death, and the violent spiral that followed. Through political miscalculations, nationalist resolve, and global reaction, it ...