Bobby Sands writing in An Phoblacht/Republican News
12 June 2026
BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in September 1977. Free article
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6 June 1981 – Vote the prisoners No. 1
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From Our Archives – 'An Phoblacht/Republican News', 6 June 1981 Free article
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