Bobby Sands, Irish Rebel

Bobby Sands, Irish Rebel
Author: Bobby Sands
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773498709

This is a self-portrait in poetry and prose of the IRA activist Bobby Sands, including his prison diaries, issued to mark the 10th anniversary of his death in prison on hunger strike.

Writings From Prison

Writings From Prison
Author: Bobby Sands Trust
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1781171106

In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.

Bobby Sands

Bobby Sands
Author: Denis O'Hearn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9780745336336

This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a faithful and shocking insight into life in Northern Ireland's H-Block prisons, an exploration of the motivations and thoughts of the Republican strikers and the story of one of the world's most radical, inspirational figures.Following his journey from its very beginnings - an ordinary boy from a working-class background in Belfast to a highly politicised, articulate revolutionary whose death in HM Prison Maze sent reverberations around the world, Bobby Sands: Nothing But An Unfinished Song captures the atmosphere of the time and the vibrancy of the man: a militant anti-imperialist who held on to his humanity despite living through a bitter, ugly struggle.

Bobby Sands

Bobby Sands
Author: Gerry Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2016
Genre: Biographical comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781847178152

Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at 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 to the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate. His death was followed by a new surge of Provisional IRA recruitment and activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism. This graphic novel brings Bobby Sands' story to life in a whole new way.

Biting at the Grave

Biting at the Grave
Author: Padraig O'Malley
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1991-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807002094

"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review

Nothing But an Unfinished Song

Nothing But an Unfinished Song
Author: Denis O'Hearn
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781560258889

At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer, and music. Ten years later he led his fellow prisoners on a protest against repressive conditions in Northern Ireland's H-Block prisons that grabbed the world's attention. After sixty-six days of refusing to eat, Sands died on May 5, 1981. Parliaments across the world stopped for a minute's silence in his honor. Bobby Sand's remarkable life and death have made him an Irish Che Guevara. Nothing But an Unfinished Song is the first biography to properly describe the motivation of the hunger strikers, recreating this period of history from within the prison walls. This powerful book illuminates for the first time this enigmatic, controversial and heroic figure.

Prison Poems

Prison Poems
Author: Bobby Sands
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1981
Genre: Northern Ireland
ISBN:

Ten Men Dead

Ten Men Dead
Author: David Beresford
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780871137029

In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses.

Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing

Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing
Author: L. Whalen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2007-11-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230610064

As it traces the textual history of the works of authors like Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams, this book analyses Republican resistance to disciplinary structures, demonstrating the ways in which prisoners appropriate space through discursive strategies.

Tom Barry

Tom Barry
Author: Meda Ryan
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2005-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1856357325

Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter chronicles the action-packed life of the Commander of the Third West Cork Flying Column, including the decisive Kilmichael ambush and the controversy regarding sectarianism during the 1920–22 period. Author, Meda Ryan, details his involvement on the fringes of the Treaty negotiations; his Republican activities during the Civil War; his engagement in the cease-fire/dump-arms deal of 1923; his term as the IRA's Chief of Staff and his participation in IRA conflicts in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and right up to his death in 1980. Includes an extensive body of primary source material, including Tom Barry's papers,