events
Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
Related Wikipedia articles
Bobby Sands
Irish Provisional IRA member (1954–1981)
Robert Gerard Sands 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
HM Prison Maze
1971–2000 prison in Northern Ireland
HM Prison Maze was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to September 2000. On 15 October 1974 Irish Republican internees burned 21 of the compounds used to house the internees thereby destroying much of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hunger strike
Form of protest or political activism
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are named dry hunger strikers.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)