UK - Belfast - Republican street mural of Bobby Sands

The face of the Irish Republican Bobby Sands is painted on the office wall of Sinn Feinn, the left-wing politcal arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954 – 1981) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the British Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate.

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The face of the Irish Republican Bobby Sands is painted on the office wall of Sinn Feinn, the left-wing politcal arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954 – 1981) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the British Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate.