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

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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