Bobby Sands
3/9/1954 - 5/5/1981
Pisces
Last Words
"I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul."
Death & Legacy
Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army guerrilla who led a hunger strike in a British prison, died today in the Maze Prison hospital on the 66th day of his fast. He was 27 years old. His death was announced by the British Government's Northern Ireland Office, which said that he had died of ''self-imposed starvation,'' later amended to ''starvation'' after protests from Sands's family.
Details
- Cause of Death
- Hunger strike
- Age at Death
- 27 years
- Funeral Location
- Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Final Resting Place
- Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland