Dirty Protest1981
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison, in response, over 500 prisoners refuse to wash or wear prison clothes
Historical person
Bobby Sands Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Bobby Sands, based on 13 World History Database records associated with Ireland.
13 records1981–19817 events0 places
Chronological biography
1981
Election1981
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
Election1981
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
H-Block1981
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
H-Block1981
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
H-Block1981
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
INLA1981
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
IRA1981
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison, in response, over 500 prisoners refused to wash or wear prison clothes (see Dirty protest and Blanket protest)
IRA1981
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
IRA1981
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn F‚in party
Sinn Fein1981
Danny Morrison sums up the new political policy at a 1981 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (annual meeting) as a "ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite in the other". After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
Strike1981
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison, in response, over 500 prisoners refuse to wash or wear prison clothes
Strike1981
Over 100,000 people attend the funeral of Sands, the first hunger striker to die
Record provenance
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