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This March special 'THE DEATH OF BOBBY SANDS and his writings are but a fall-out resulting from the cruel interference by Britain in the affairs of the Irish I wish it were possible to ensure that those in charge of formulating British policy in would read pages. They might begin to understand the deep injuries which British policy has inflicted upon this nation, and now seek to heal these deep These are the words of Sean MacBride in his into the Sands book One Day in my is about biography of Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. His life mirrored the experience of thousands of men and women born into the forcibly created sectarian state of Northern Ireland.
repression discrimination suffered the anti-unionist population in the north of Ireland has been responsible for the war and the subsequently Bobby Sands was just one The policy crimilisation, introduced by Roy Mason in 1976 is directly responsible for his death.
meant that artioners convicted. in notjar! policical corE afres 1976 were status as prisoners, a concession which Socialist Action had William these It Bobby nothing the Sands, by huge then all denied been forced Whitelaw previous hunger strike.
The first stage prisoners struggle against this was the blanket protest which later developed into the 'dirty' protest as a result of continuous harassment of those 'on the blanket'.
is this perience which Bobby Sands portrays in his book.
Liberation The hunger many effects. Firstly it showed that the north of Ireland could dominate the attention of the world's political commentators. embarrassing for the British government.
Secondly it dispelled once and for all the myth that the war of liberation in Ireland has no mass support among the anti-unionist population.
The election of Bobby tion of Owen Carron and the continued success Fein is proof of this. The fact that Sinn Fein are marginalising the evidence, if any were really needed, that the war of national liberation is based on the mass support of the community.
If this were not the case Bobby others like him. Fould neser kare bees is prison.
roud serer hare died on banger strike fighting to be recognised for were - prisoners of war!
by of the terrible exhad This was highly followed by the elecof Sinn Social Democratic is clear Sands.
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