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I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle u… - Bobby Sands
" "I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle until I achieve liberation of my country, until Ireland becomes a sovereign, independent socialist republic.
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About Bobby Sands
Robert Gerard Sands (Irish Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a Northern Irish member of the IRA who died on hunger strike whilst imprisoned in HM Prison Maze for the possession of firearms. He was the leader of the protests in which ten prisoners eventually starved themselves to death. During his protest, which began on 1 March 1981, he was elected as a Member of Parliament as a Anti H-Block candidate at the April 1981 Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election. While in jail, Sands became a writer of poetry. Bobby Sands was a radical catholic terrorist, who eventually starved himself to death, in a attempt to gain recognition as an Political Prisoner.
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Robert Gerard Sands
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Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh
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