Michael Fassbender on playing Bobby Sands in Hunger
Michael Fassbender has done sci-fi, sword-and-sandal and slasher movies. But his latest role, as the IRA hunger striker Bobby ...
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On This Day: Bobby Sands, an IRA prisioner began his history altering hunger stricke
On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh, began a hunger strike that would ultimately claim his life 66 days later. His death, along with those of nine ...
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Republican hunger strikes in the Maze prison
The hunger strikes by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze prison brought to a head five years of protest for their right to be treated as 'special category' political prisoners rather ...