Tag: Bobby Sands

When were these Halcyon Days of the Media?

October 28, 2017January 2, 2018 Peter BBC, Bobby Sands, Bobby Sands By Election, Denis Halliday, Edmund Burke Theatre, Enda Kenny, Gemma O Doherty, Halcyon days, Hunger Strikes, IRA, IRA Chief of Staff, John Pilger, Media Bias, Nelson Mandela, Northern Ireland, Paramilitary, President Mary Mc Aleese, Seán Mac Stiofáin, Section 31, Terrorist, The Troubles, Trinity College Dublin, UVF

(Updated version here on IrishCentral.com) Having wanted to see him speak for some time, you can imagine my delight when

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35 years since Bobby Sands Election – The 1981 Hunger Strike, Reaction and its Legacy

April 13, 2016 Peter 10 men dead, 1981, 5 May 1981, 66 Days, 7 May 1981, 9 April 1981, Abstention, BBC, Bobby Sands, Bobby Sands street, By-Election, Dáil Éireann, Danny Morrison, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, five demands, Frank Maguire, Ghent, Greece, H-Block, Harry West, Hunger, Hunger Strikes, independent republican, INLA, IRA, Long Kesh, loyalists, Michael Fassbender, Michael Thatcher, Norway protest, Owen Carron, Paris, Political Status, Queen Elizabeth 2, Sands in coma, Sinn Féin, Steve Mc Queen, Tehran, the armalite and the ballot box, The Maze, Tommy Mc Kearney, Ulster Unionist

On 9 April 1981, with 30,492 votes, Bobby Sands won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election following the death of Independent Republican MP, Frank