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After a 66-day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.
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1981 Irish hunger strike
Protest by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland
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Bobby Sands
Irish Provisional IRA member (1954–1981)
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HM Prison Maze
1971–2000 prison in Northern Ireland
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