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You know, Bobby Sands and the hunger strikers there were left to die, in effect.
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A. warriors, and led by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), at Maze prison, in Northern Ireland.
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He was in prison with Bobby Sands, the iconic IRA figure who died in hunger strike in 1981.
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He then went on to be elected as an MP--Bobby Sands did.
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Crime movie In Bruges, directed by Martin McDonagh, is up for the film award, along with Hunger - director Steve McQueen's depiction of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.
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Bobby Sands summed it all up best for me.
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It's also quite significant in that the person who gave that videotaped statement was one Seanna Walsh, who was a very close associate of Bobby Sands, the first person to die in the hunger strikes.
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Michael Biggs, a sociologist at the University of Oxford, says some of the most successful cases were Irish republicans fighting the British state - Thomas Ashe, killed during forcible feeding in Dublin in 1917, Terence MacSwiney, starved to death in London in 1920, and Bobby Sands, starved to death in Long Kesh in 1981.
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