We found out years later (through documents) that Bobby's final burial wishes, which were not known to us at the time, were not followed.". How old is Bobby Sands? [60], The Iranian government renamed Winston Churchill Boulevard, the location of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street, prompting the embassy to move its entrance door to Ferdowsi street to avoid using Bobby Sands Street on its letterhead. He was learning guitar and was mad about the music of Arlo Guthrie. The bullets zipped past us and some even ricocheted off the pavement next to us. Mrs McMullin said: "Bobby Sands had a choice. She said, that in the years that followed Mrs Sands "continued to support prisoners and their families" and was always there "when each of her children suffered". Michael McKevitt at the funeral of his mother-in-law Rosaleen Sands the mother of Bobby Sands takes place at St Oliver Plunkett's Church, Blackrock Co Louth Picture Mal McCann. But gradually the cold began to get to us. From Stella Maris website: http://www.stellamarissecondary.com/), Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). "Edifying the Rebellious Gael", Bobby Sands film wins Cannes award. Last month unionists reacted furiously when it emerged that public money from the BBC and Northern Ireland Screen had been used to fund the film. He added: Bobby Sands was a natural leader., A recently discovered picture of Sands in a republican march carrying a flag past Andersonstown RUC station weeks before he was jailed in 1976. The melody of "Back Home in Derry" was borrowed from Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Picture by Pacemaker, Bobby Sands' sisters Marcella and Bernadette beside the coffin of their mother Rosaleen (95) at the funeral in St Oliver Plunkett's Church, Blackrock, Co Louth. Speaking yesterday at the funeral of their mother Rosaleen, who died last week aged 95, she recalled the family's plight at the time. A man who witnessed these events as a teenager told us this week: There was a training scheme based at Feldon House, Mill Road, Bawnmore. "It was a trust that was breached. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The British Consulate at Ghent was raided. Observers say by the time he returned to jail, Sands had noticeably matured and he had developed a reputation as a voracious reader of Irish history. June McMullin, the widow of Constable John Proctor, A scene from the Bobby Sands documentary 66 Days. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sands, 27, died in the early hours of May 5 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike. A wreath from the republican prisoners in Portlaoise Prison at the funeral of Rosaleen Sands the mother of Bobby Sands takes place at St Oliver Plunkett's Church, Blackrock Co Louth Picture Mal McCann. The song Grace was written in 1985 by Frank and Sen O'Meara having been inspired by Grace Gifford, the widow to 1916 Easter Rising leader Joseph Plunkett, who married Grace only hours before his execution at Dublins Kilmainham Gaol. His parents were both raised in the Catholic slums of Belfast. In court, Sands was convicted of possession of the gun and jailed for 14 years. They were all give an opportunity to hold the weapon. This began with the "blanket protest" in 1976, in which the prisoners refused to wear prison uniforms and wore blankets instead. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The excitement of it acted like a magnet to him.. 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Shortly before Sands's death, The Washington Post reported that the primary aim of the hunger strike was to generate international publicity.[31]. [62] A street in the Elahieh district is also named after Sands. Bernadette Sands-McKevitt claimed that republicans ignored her. Instead he asked to be buried in the Republic, before apparently agreeing in a subsequent letter that he would be laid to rest in the republican plot at Belfasts Milltown Cemetery. Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. Ive got nothing against them. And on Thursday October 14, he was arrested again after a shootout with police following a bomb attack at the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry. Mrs Sands-McKevitt, a founding member of the dissident republican 32 County Sovereignty Movement, was accompanied by her husband, former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt, and other members of the extended Sands family for the funeral of her mother at St Oliver Plunkett Church. Flackes and Sydney Elliott, "Northern Ireland: A Political Directory" (Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1999), at p. 550, notes that at the 1981 District Council elections on 20 May 1981, "the results showed a decline in support for centre parties". Bobby Sands was the first of 10 republican hunger strikers to die in the Maze prison in the same year. It took sixty days for Bobby Sands to die. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. And he even had to quit his job as an apprentice coach builder because of sectarian intimidation. Bobby was their section leader. 27-year-old Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican, died on May 5, 1981 in HM Prison Maze in Lough Kesh, Co Down after he initiated a hunger strike to protest the removal of Special Category Status. When we stepped outside at around 4pm, we could see a large crowd of Protestant teenagers had arrived from Rathcoole and Mount Vernon. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Several of the teenagers agreed to join the IRA. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 It struck a chord with his fellow prisoners who regularly asked him to recite it for them. 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Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 However, he noted that this was his personal view. Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roiberd Gearid Seachnasaigh;[2] 9 March 1954 5 May 1981) was a member (and leader in the Maze prison)[3] of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. He also began to write. Erin Sands brought her local pub in Co Down to a standstill with her rendition of the popular Irish ballad. Other writings attributed to him are: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song[27] and One Day in My Life. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. Within a week of moving to Twinbrook in 1972, Sands made the momentous decision to join the IRA. Many French towns and cities have streets named after Sands, including Nantes, Saint-tienne, Le Mans,[48] Vierzon, and Saint-Denis. Irish pubs in the city were closed for two hours in mourning. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition. Experience Irelands castles and manors with a private chauffeur vacation, Ireland held a special place in Johnny Cashs heart. Sinn Fin responded to the publication by claiming that Bobby Sands had written a later comm in which he indicated that he had changed his mind. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Picture by Mal McCann, Former SInn Fein councillor and Mayor Pat McGinn (right) at the funeral of Rosaleen Sands, the mother of Bobby Sands. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. [58] The Ledger of 5 May 1981 claimed that the hunger strike made Sands "a hero among Irish Republicans, or nationalists, seeking the reunion of Protestant-dominated and British-ruled Northern Ireland with the independent and predominantly Catholic Irish Republic to the south". [19][20], Upon his release, he returned to his family home in West Belfast, and resumed his active role in the Provisional IRA. I remember saying to myself: Bobby Sands, where do you get this energy from? said ORawe. [61] There have been claims that the British pressured Iranian authorities to change the name of Bobby Sands Street but this was denied. Saying she faced a choice "that no mother could contemplate" Mrs Sands-McKevitt said she left "his life in God's hands and placed her trust in others to bury her son. Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. [55], Some American critics and journalists suggested that American press coverage was a "melodrama". The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. [38] The original pathologist's report recorded the hunger strikers' causes of death as "self-imposed starvation", amended to simply "starvation" following protests by the dead strikers' families. Sands was a member of this club and played left-back. On March 1, 1981, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands began a hunger strike which would earn him world-wide notoriety. And that he was sworn in by a man who was to become another republican legendary figure Bobby Storey. Bobby Sands's grave in the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery, west Belfast, on the 40th anniversary of his death on May 5 1981. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. And now Mr Proctor's furious widow has weighed into the deepening row over the Bobby. And as the others hovered around the door with the weapons, a British Army mobile patrol passed nearby. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Exactly 40 years after Sands death, we have spoken to some of his closest friends and learned what turned the soccer-mad boy into a committed paramilitary who would spend almost all his adult life in prison before dying there on May 5 1981 at the age of 27. Following Sands's election win, the British government introduced the Representation of the People Act 1981 which prevents prisoners serving jail terms of more than one year in either the UK or the Republic of Ireland from being nominated as candidates in British elections. [3], In June 1972, Sands's parents' home was attacked and damaged by a loyalist mob and they were again forced to move, this time to the West Belfast Catholic area of Twinbrook, where Sands, now thoroughly embittered, rejoined them. Your friend and comrade, Bobby Sands." Kathleen Quigley : Gerard, a man was shot! Bobby Sands was born on March 9, 1954 and died on May 5, 1981. Do you have a video you want featured on IrishCentral? Set up by the Irish Northern Aid Committee and local Irish-Americans, it stands in a traffic island known as Bobby Sands Circle at the bottom of Maple Avenue near Goodwin Park. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. And I wont be doing any kneecapping or robberies.. [7] After marrying, they relocated to the new development of Abbots Cross, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, outside North Belfast. Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. RM2FM2FTE - File photo dated 07/05/1981 of Bobby Sands mother Rosaleen, her husband John at the graveside during his funeral at Milltown cemetery in Belfast. As an initiation, he asked Sands to transport a gun from Rathcoole to Glengormley because the local IRA volunteer who was supposed to do the job had failed to show up. His legacy might still divide a deeply scarred society, but theres no doubt he was a unique character who is still revered by many today. Disappeared: December 1972 (aged 38) County Louth, Republic of Ireland: Jean McConville (ne Murray; 7 May 1934 - December 1972) was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces. "She was an inspiration to us all and set a fine example to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.". [33] Pressure not to split the vote led other nationalist parties, notably the Social Democratic and Labour Party, to withdraw, and Sands was nominated on the label "Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner". He penned a lengthy piece about his experiences at the hands of RUC interrogators in Castlereagh, The Crimes of Castlereagh. [81] Noade soon left to live in England with their son. He proceeded to show the others how to strip the weapons down before reassembling them. Based at Greencastle on the Shore Road, Sands Star of the Sea team-mates included Raymond McCord, who comes from a Protestant background. The Boston Globe commented, a few days before Sands's death, that "[t]he slow suicide attempt of Bobby Sands has cast his land and his cause into another downward spiral of death and despair. SHE was one of the most famous mothers in the world, but none who depicted Rosaleen Sands in scores of films, documentaries and books knew the real woman, mourners at her funeral heard yesterday. The death of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands 40 years ago this week, followed by nine other republicans during a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Co Antrim, sparked significant civil unrest across Northern Ireland. The premiere was hosted with File An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. More than 100,000 people lined the route of Sands's funeral, and he was buried in the 'New Republican Plot' alongside 76 others. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 15:06. Disqualification for membership of the House of Privacy Policy. Republican prisoners organised a series of protests seeking to regain their previous Special Category Status, which would free them from some ordinary prison regulations. By - June 5, 2022. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye, Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 They were isolated, so they worked with other volunteers from surrounding areas. "That's a very good reason to do a film like this. Bobby Sands's son Gerard (front right) carries the coffin of his grandmother Rosaleen from St Oliver Plunkett's Church, Blackrock Co Louth Picture by Mal McCann. harlingen, tx distance to mexican border . Exactly 40 years after Sands death, we have spoken to some of his closest friends and learned what turned the soccer-mad boy into a committed paramilitary who would spend almost all his adult life in prison before dying there on May 5 1981 at the age of 27. Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. Picture Mal McCann, A wreath from the republican prisoners in Portlaoise Prison at the funeral of Rosaleen Sands, the mother of Bobby Sands. "My son Johnnie never had the chance to meet his father, he had no choice. Bobby recalled how his hopes of a normal life were shattered: Starting work, although frightening at first became alright, especially with the reward at the end of the week. Controversy has raged over the film which is based on extracts from the republican prisoner's diary, eyewitness testimonies, unseen archive, reconstructions and animations. 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