Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands was born in Abbots Cross, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on March 9th, 1954 and is the Criminal. At the age of 27, Bobby Sands biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roiberd Gearóid) a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while being arrested in HM Prison Maze after being jailed for firearms possession. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike, in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category status.
He was elected as an Anti H-Block candidate during Sands' protests to the British Parliament.
His death and those of nine other hunger strikers were followed by a surge in Provisional IRA recruitment and activity.
The hunger strikers and the Republican movement in general attracted both praise and critique in foreign media coverage, with both praise and criticism.
Early life
Sands was born in Dunmurry in 1954 to John and Rosaleen Sands. They migrated to Abbots Cross, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, just outside North Belfast, after marrying. Sands was the oldest of four children. Marcella and Bernadette, two of his younger sisters, were born in 1955 and 1958, respectively. John, his younger brother, was born in 1962.
After experiencing harassment and coercion from their neighbors, the family scrapped the project and moved in with friends for six months before being granted housing in the nearby Rathcoole neighborhood. Rathcoole was 30% Catholic and featured Catholic schools as well as a nominally Catholic, but religiously mixed youth football academy, an unusual occurrence in Northern Ireland, where Stella Maris, the school Sands attended and where the instruction was held. Sands was a member of this club and played left-back. When the Stella Maris club closed, there was another youth club in nearby Greencastle named Star of the Sea, and many boys went to there when the Stella Maris club closed.
Secular unrest in Rathcoole, as well as the rest of the Belfast metropolitan area, had significantly expanded by 1966, and the majority Catholic population was also under siege. Sands found that none of them would even speak to him, and he quickly learned that Catholics were the only true Christians.
He started school at the age of 15, and enrolled in Newtownabbey Technical College, beginning an apprenticeship as a coach builder at Alexander's Coach Works in 1970. He was employed for less than a year, suffering regular bullying from his Protestant co-workers, which, according to several co-workers, he completely abandoned altogether as he sought to learn a meaningful career. He was eventually confronted after leaving his job in January 1971 by a group of his coworkers wearing the armbands of the local Ulster loyalist tartan gang. Alexander was arrested at gunpoint and told that he was off limits to "Fenian scum" and that he should never return back if he valued his life. Later, he said that this was the case in which he had come to the conclusion that militancy was the only alternative. Sands, a barman at the Glen Inn (a pub in Glengormley), approached a man who seemed to be in touch with the IRA in late 1971, and told him he wanted to join; the man told Bobby that it was not important because Catholics in the area were so isolated. Bobby was seen playing football on a pitch near the Sands house later this year. Sands was asked by the local IRA volunteer who was supposed to do the job but failed to turn up as an initiator. Bobby played the game on the spot, changed clothes, and took the pistol. According to O'Hearn, Bobby's involvement with the IRA began in earnest.
Sands' parents' house was attacked and destroyed by a loyalist crowd in June 1972, and they were forced to relocate, this time to Twinbrook, West Belfast Catholic, where Sands had been completely distraught. Almost every Catholic family had been forced out of Rathcoole by violence and coercion by 1973, although some remained.