Bobby Sands
Author of One Day in My Life
Works by Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands: Irish Rebel : A Self-Portrait in Poetry and Polemics Issued on the 10th Anniversary of His Death (1991) 2 copies
Um dia na minha vida 2 copies
The writings of Bobby Sands 1 copy
Sands Bobby 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Sands, Bobby
- Legal name
- Sands, Robert Gerard
- Other names
- Ó Seachnasaigh, Roibeard Gearóid
Marcella - Birthdate
- 1954-04-09
- Date of death
- 1981-05-05 [1954]
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- apprentice coach-builder
journalist
poet
Member of the Westminster Parliament - Organizations
- Provisional Irish Republican Army
United Kingdom Parliament - Awards and honors
- Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate for United Kingdom Parliament
selected Officer Commanding, OC, of Long Kesh IRA detainees (1980)
street named after Sands in Saint-Étienne, France
street named after Sands in Le Mans, France
street named after Sands in Vierzon, France
street named after Sands in Saint-Denis, France - Agent
- Owen Carron
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Places of residence
- Long Kesh, County Down, Ireland
Abbots Cross, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
West Belfast, Northern Ireland - Map Location
- UK
Members
Reviews
Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike at Long Kesh, outside Belfast. This book documents a day in the life of Bobby Sands. It is a tale of human bravery, endurance and courage against a backdrop of suffering, terror and harassment. It will live on as a constant reminder of events that should never have show more happened -- and will hopefully never happen again. show less
A great, stark companion read to [b:Ten Men Dead|228668|Ten Men Dead The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike|David Beresford|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172889548s/228668.jpg|221455]. Still, bleak enough to make reading difficult at times.
La storia di Sands, il suo diario, viene rivisto e riletto da una buona curatrice italiana, Silvia Calamati. Le vicende dei militanti dell’Ira, drammaticamente e violentemente contrastati dalla sempre guerreggiante Gran Bretagna sono di dominio comune. Ed i simboli della guerra, persa, dei cattolici irlandesi è in una domenica, una sanguinosa domenica, e nel sacrificio di Bobby Sands, uno dei tanti irlandesi che ha sacrificato la propria vita per la propria Patria. Il libro si potrebbe show more intitolare storie dal carcere; o una morte per la libertà. Ma in realtà questo breve libro non riesce a fornire tutte le chiavi per leggere sia il dramma individuale di un ragazzo morto a trenta anni né il dramma collettivo del popolo irlandese. La responsabilità non è, chiaramente, né dell’autore, né della curatrice. Ma del tipo di approccio del testo che, seppure in una grande crudezza di stile, non riesce a colpire nel profondo. Quanto il solo pensiero di un uomo morto per la libertà del suo popolo. Che tu possa riposare in pace, Bobby. show less
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