Bobby Sands was an Irish revolutionary, Gaeilgeoir, song writer and poet who died on 5th May, 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike. He was 27 years old. It was estimated that more than 100,000 people turned out to pay their respects to their fallen hero. Sands’ poetry was written in gaol in the most […]
This moving footage has some insightful family photos of Francis Hughes as a child. It’s a deserved tribute to a great Irish revolutionary.
This poem was written by the Irish Republican martyr, Bobby Sands, who died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks prison in 1981. The poem was, like all of Sands’ communications with the outside, written in tiny lettering on pieces of toilet paper or torn pages of a bible, and then smuggled past the vulturesque […]
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