Robert Gerard Sands (1954 - 1981)

Born 9 Mar 1954 in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Ancestors

Died 5 May 1981 at age 27 in Maze, County Down, Northern Ireland

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Biography

Bobby Sands was born in Ireland.

Bobby Sands is Notable.

Robert Gerard was born in 1954.

Sands went on hunger strike on the 1st March 1981. Bobby Sands of the Anti H Block Party was elected as the M.P. for Fermanagh and South Tyrone on the 9th April 1881,^[1] while imprisoned in H.M. Maze.Sands died on the 5th May 1981 after sixty-six days on hunger strike. Vol. Bobby Sands was buried in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ U.K. Parliament: "Bobby Sands", MPs and Lords, UK Parliament. https://members.parliament.uk/member/771/career.
2. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #11800340 (accessed 4 August 2023)
   Memorial page for Bobby Sands (9 Mar 1954-5 May 1981), citing Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (plot: Section 20, New Republican Plot); Maintained by Find a Grave.

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q121615, en:Wikipedia
• Maume, Patrick. Sands, Robert (‘Bobby’). Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009). https://www.dib.ie/biography/sands-robert-bobby-a7918.
• Patterson, Henry. Sands, Robert Gerald [Bobby] (1954–1981). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39421.
• Bobby Sands Trust. https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/.
• "Bobby Sands", Irish Hungerstrikes index. https://web.archive.org/web/20080731013648/http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html/.