Dirty Protest
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
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Bobby Sands Biography and Timeline
Follow Bobby Sands through 13 dated historical records for Ireland.
Bobby Sands, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1981–1981Years on this page
1981
H-Block
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
INLA
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
IRA
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)
Strike
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
Strike
Over 100,000 people attend the funeral of Sands, the first hunger striker to die
Election
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-Block
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
IRA
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
Election
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-Block
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
IRA
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 Fein
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
Records, sources and methodology
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