ly at Abbots Cross in the Newtonabbey area of North Belfast. However, the anti-Catholic attitudes raised their heads and the Sands family was forced to move in 1962 to another predominately Protestant ghetto in Belfast. Growing up in these areas led to

e nature of hate that most Catholics have being in the segregated areas of Belfast. Bobby shared the same experiences, and had the same feelings.

At the age of fifteen, Bobby quit school and began work as an apprentice coach builder and joined the national union of vehicle builders. In 1968, Bobby was forced out of his job due to anti-Catholic resentment. His sister Burnadette says," Bobby went

work one day and these fellows were standing there cleaning guns. One fellow said to him, ' Do you see these here, well, if you don't you'll get this.' Then Bobby found a note in his lunchbox telling him to get out."1 These events would change his life

In 1972, the Sands family was forced to move again when their house wa

to realize the just cause of Irish self-determination and to see more clearly the repeated steps of successive British governments to deny the Irish of their heritage"2.

in the car. They could not link the men to the bombing, but they were charged with possession of the revolver. All were convicted and sentenced to 14 years at Long Kesh prison.

Nine more prisoners followed Bobby to their deaths. After 217 days of hunger striking and ten people dead, the blanket protesters called off the strike. Even though there were many men men willing to volunteer for the strike, the IRA felt that more dea

well as across America and Ireland. Violence erupted in France, Spain, and Portugal....The Italian, part of the Indian, Iranian, and Portuguese governments, as well as Poland's Leah Walesa and smaller American communities honored Sands."3

s could achieve Prisoner of War status. With POW status, the prisoners would get five privileges: the right to wear their own clothes, abstain from prison work, to associate freely within their own prison confines, to use educational and recreation area

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