Bobby Sands

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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