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- 1. Summary
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- 3. Vocabulary
1. Summary
Bobby Sands was 27 when, on 1st March 1981, he started his hunger strike at the Maze prison in Belfast.
The historic context in Ireland was complex in this time. The Irish and the English had been at war for centuries about the independence of Ireland when, in 1921, an agreement which decided the partition of Ireland was signed. Only 6 counties in the north remained under English domination while the rest of the country was independent, at last. It was the only solution that the Irish were offered and they accepted it.
Northern Ireland was now shared between two communities:
- the Protestant and Unionists who wanted to be part of the United Kingdom,
- and the Catholics and Republicans who wished they would one day be considered as Irish, not as British.
Why did Bobby Sands end up in jail and why did he decide with his companions a hunger strike?
Bobby Sands was a member of the IRA who was arrested by the
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