Bobby Sands

Also known as Robert Gerard Sands, Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh

Activist of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1954-1981)

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Born: 9 March 1954
Died: 5 May 1981
Works: 11

Top works

Hapishane Siirleri
One day in my life
Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands, Irish rebel
The Diary of Bobby Sands

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Ireland
Active from: 1954
Active to: 1981

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Listeners: 52
Total plays: 208

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5 total works indexed

Infliximab for Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis
· 2005 · cited 3,283x
Mutation in blood coagulation factor V associated with resistance to activated protein C
· 1994 · cited 2,888x
Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene
· 2015 · cited 2,502x
STRIDE-II: An Update on the Selecting Therapeutic Targets in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (STRIDE) Initiative of the International Organization for the Study of IBD (IOIBD): Determining Therapeutic Goals for Treat-to-Target strategies in IBD
· 2021 · cited 2,501x
Dysfunction of the intestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease and treatment
· 2012 · cited 2,415x

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Quotes

“I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle until I achieve liberation of my country, until Ireland becomes a sovereign, independent socialist republic.”
“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.”
“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.”
“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.”
“There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end.It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.”
“It wept by the waters of Babylon, And when all men were a loss, It screeched in writhing agony, And it hung bleeding from the Cross. It died in Rome by lion and sword, And in defiant cruel array, When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’ Along the Appian Way.”

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Key facts

Preceded by: Frank Maguire
Succeeded by: Owen Carron
Born: Robert Gerard Sands , ( 1954-03-09 ) 9 March 1954, Dunmurry , County Antrim , Northern Ireland
Died: 5 May 1981 (1981-05-05) (aged 27), HM Prison Maze , County Down , Northern Ireland
Cause of death: Hunger strike
Party: Anti H-Block
Spouse: Geraldine Noade ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1973 )
Relatives: Bernadette Sands McKevitt (sister)
Allegiance: Provisional Irish Republican Army
Years of service: 1972–1981
Unit: First Battalion South West Belfast, Belfast Brigade
Battles wars: The Troubles

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.bobbysandstrust.com

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date of birth: 1954-03-09
date of death: 1981-05-05
Commons category: Bobby Sands
birth name: Robert Gerard Sands
name in native language: Bobby Sands
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Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.

He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During Sands's strike, he was elected to the UK Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate. His death and those of nine hunger strikers were followed by a surge of IRA recruitment and activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism.