Bobby sands actually, a, was elected to the british house of commons while he was wasting away in prison. He obviously wasn't allowed a campaign or anything like that, and couldn't have because he was going slowly dying of starvation. So it was a really big p r cu for the i r a. It showed that the average person in northern ireland, the average catholic, was reall upset with how thebritish were treating the i rA.
In the early 1980s, imprisoned IRA members went on a prolonged hunger strike, leading to the death of ten men. This is their story.
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