Bobby Sands1981
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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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
Over 100,000 people attend the funeral of Sands, the first hunger striker to die
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