Forty years ago, on 5 May 1981, 27-year-old Bobby Sands, the IRA's leader in the Maze prison outside Belfast, starved himself to death. Peter Taylor, who covered the story at the time, says it ...

On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA ... of four handguns and spent the next three years in Long Kesh prison where he was regarded as a political prisoner.

Oliver Hughes, brother of another hunger striker in Northern Ireland’s Long Kesh (Maze) prison on Saturday. All weekend, I had thought about Bobby Sands. Saturday, running errands seemed such a ...

BBC journalist Brian Walker describes Bobby Sands' journey from a Protestant housing estate to the Provisional IRA to leader of the second republican hunger strike at the Maze prison in Northern ...

MR BOBBY SANDS, the 27-year-old Republican hunger-strike and Westminster MP, died in the hospital wing of the Maze Prison, Long Kesh, early this morning. Mr Sands, who had just entered his 66th ...

Irish republican leader Bobby Sands, who died in Long Kesh prison in 1981 during a hunger strike, becomes a universal symbol of freedom and human resistance to tyranny in "The Silence of the Lark." ...

Ireland's Maze Prison Plans for the land that formerly ... Northern Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands refused to follow an order from Pope John Paul II to stop his fast, newly released documents ...

Hunger "Hunger" is McQueen's harrowing feature debut If you're looking for a biopic or a documentary about Bobby Sands and the IRA hunger strike on 1981 in the infamous Maze Prison, "Hunger ...

Forty years ago, on 5 May 1981, 27-year-old Bobby Sands, the IRA's leader in the Maze prison outside Belfast, starved himself to death. Peter Taylor, who covered the story at the time, says it ...