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| | Bobby Sands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Most Irish Republicans and IRA sympathizers regard Bobby Sands and the other nine men as being martyrs who stood firm against the intransigence of the British Government, and many Irish nationalists who abhorred the IRA were outraged at the British government's stance. | | | Sands was technically a Member of the Westminster Parliament for twenty-five days, though he never took his seat or oath. | | | His family moved several times due to constant intimidation of Catholics by loyalists, although it was not always clear the Sands were Roman Catholics as their last name derived from his paternal grandfather who was a Protestant. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands
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| | 1981 Irish Hungerstrikers |
| | Bobby had served two years of his apprenticeship when he was intimidated out of his job. | | | Bobby spent the first twenty-two days of his sentence in solitary confinement, 'on the boards' in Crumlin Road jail. | | | Bobby Sands, of the Twinbrook "Liberty" (From An Camcheachta, June 1981) |
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http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 5 1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison |
| | Sands' parents, brother and sister were at his bedside when he died. | | | Bobby Sands was the first of 10 republican prisoners to die after hunger strikes. | | | He had softened his stance since the first strike and this time was making five main demands: that republican prisoners be allowed to wear their own clothes, that they be given free association time, visits and mail, that they should not to have to carry out penal work and should be given back lost remission. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2728000/2728309.stm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports How the IRA manufactured a new martyr |
| | The decision to nominate Sands as a British parliamentary candidate was one of the most bizarre tactics in the IRA's campaign to focus world attention on the man whom Ulster Loyalists angrily dismissed as a convicted criminal. | | | He was elected in April by a majority of 1,400 votes for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, a constituency in which he had never set foot as a candidate. | | | Danny Morrison, a close friend of Sands, says, "The H-Block business was a millstone round the neck of the Republican movement for four years." |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1209993,00.html
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| | In memoriam: Bobby Sands |
| | Bobby Sands was born into a poor, working-class Catholic family in Belfast. | | | At the time of his death, he had refused food for 66 days in protest at the British government's attempts to paint jailed republicans as criminals, rather than as political prisoners, as prisoners of war. | | | He was arrested, beaten and tortured by the police and tried before one of Britain's special no-jury courts set up to deal harshly with captured republican guerillas. |
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/11/11p8.htm
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| | Bobby Sands 50th Birthday - Forum |
| | However, despite all the iconography associated with Bobby Sands, it is sometimes forgotten that he was also a son, a brother, a father and a friend. | | | At the stroke of a pen, after March 1, 1976, the British government attempted to label anyone convicted of a conflict-related offence from that date onwards as an "ordinary criminal." In real terms, however, the British government turned the issue into a battle of life and death. | | | The following day back in Belfast, I met Gerry in a house in Clonard owned by lifelong republican Alfie Hannaway. |
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http://celtic-lyrics.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=386
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| | 1981 Hunger Strikes |
| | To some, the victory of Robert Sands constitutes an endorsement of the Irish Republican Army and its bloody ways. | | | But his death would be a tragedy serving no purpose, and to view his election as a mandate for violence is a shallow distortion." | | | "On the question of principle, Britain's prime minister Thatcher is right in refusing to yield political status to Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/exhibits/0501_hunger/ampress/pov_editorials.htm
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| | BOBBY SANDS |
| | Sands played a major part in leading republican resistance to crimialisation in the H-Blocks and conducted negotiations with the prison governor in attempting to resolve the prison crisis, which foundered when the British adopted an intransigent attitude | | | He was sentenced in early 1973 to five years imprisonment which he served as a political prisoner in the cages of Long Kesh | | | [This decision meant that voters were faced with a straight choice between Bobby Sands and Harry West, the Unionist candidate.] |
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http://marcella32.livejournal.com
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| | AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS |
| | The first cross, in memory of Bobby Sands, has been draped in black to mark his death. | | | Addressing over 1,000 republicans on Friday evening, 4 May, the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams spoke of Bobby Sands as ``an ordinary man who if he was here tonight wouldn't stand out in the crowd, but in extraordinary circumstances human beings can and do do exceptional things. | | | ``As Christy Moore states in his recent autobiography: while Bobby Sands was dying for Ireland, Haughey and Burke were |
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http://republican-news.org/archive/2001/May10/10hung.html
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| | ZNet Activism Bobby Sands and Britain's Own Gitmo, 25 Years On |
| | Bobby Sands was jailed by a judge sitting alone, a judge who even admitted that the police had produced no evidence to tie him to the bombs that he was accused of planting. | | | Article 39 of the Magna Carta reads, "No free person shall be jailed without a jury of his peers." | | | The name Bobby Sands is emblazoned on the Irish psyche, 25 years after he began his hunger strike on March 1, 1981. |
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=9830
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| | A tribute to Bobby Sands |
| | In a personal message to his electorate, Bobby wrote: “There is but a single issue at stake, the right for human dignity of Irish men and women. | | | He became the spokesperson and negotiator for his fellow prisoners. | | | Bobby Sands was born in March 1954 in Newtownabbey, a Unionist area. |
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1992/55/55p7.htm
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| | 1981 Hunger Strikes |
| | John Hinckley attempts to assassinate U.S. president Ronald Reagan; he wounds the president and press secretary James Brady. | | | Owen Carron, Sands' campaign manager, wins election to fill seat left vacant by Sands' death. | | | The private secretary of Pope John Paul II paid a visit to Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison but was unable to persuade him to end his hunger strike. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/exhibits/0501_hunger/timeline/timeline01.htm
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| | Lyr Req: Back Home in Derry (Bobby Sands) |
| | Written by Bobby Sands for his comrades from Dem(who were ln the H-Blocks^^^ | | | This is an Irish Gaelic term for the custom of starving oneself to death on the doorstep of one's adversary. | | | Lyr/Chords Req: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (9) |
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http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5837
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| | RNW: The Legacy of Bobby Sands |
| | And when the leader of the hunger strikers, Bobby Sands, died, it brought Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war. | | | Sands had gone on hunger strike on March the first; on May the fifth he had been without food for a full sixty-six days. | | | The man who put his name at the top of the list was the charismatic Bobby Sands. |
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http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/westerneurope/sands010727.html
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| | INA/Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 25 |
| | The US Congress and state and local governments passed resolutions honoring Bobby’s sacrifice and sent letters of condolence. | | | His remarks were made all the more poignant considering his stature and his professional background. | | | Poland’s Lech Walesa paid tribute, "Bobby Sands was a great man who sacrificed his life for his struggle." |
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http://www.inac.org/irishhistory/hungerstrikes/chapters/25
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| | BBC - History - War and Conflict |
| | Three weeks after his election Sands fell into a coma and died on 5 May. He had been on hunger strike for 66 days. | | | Bobby Sands was nominated as an anti-H-Block candidate and won the election. | | | The republican prisoners' blanket/dirty protest had crystallised around five specific demands: the right to wear their own clothes; the right not to do prison work; the right to free association; the right to a weekly visit and to educational and recreational pursuits and the full restoration of remission lost through the protest. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles/hungerstrikes/hunger.shtml
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| | Ireland: bobby sands |
| | Bobby was just a chump change small time criminal who under extraordinary times and circumstances became an extraordinary individual and leader - became 'Officer-Commanding' (IRA)in the Maze and of course was the first to parish. | | | When Bernadette McAlisky (nea Devlin) and another candidate stood down during the March 81' elections so Bobby would become a MP of Britain would be something to write in for sure! | | | Check on what Gerry Adams has written during his time in HMP Maze. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/Ireland-144/bobby-sands.htm
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| | Press Release |
| | "The Bobby Sands Memorial Award serves as a show of appreciation and recognition to an individual in the Central New York community who has given his or her utmost efforts towards achieving justice with peace in Northern Ireland," according to Kevin Ahern, president of the Syracuse Chapter of the AOH. | | | Ahern said: "It is because of his actions that citizens in the Central New York Community who are concerned about Northern Ireland have a political voice in what transpires there. | | | Sands and the other prisoners were demonstrating to be recognized as political prisoners. |
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http://www.house.gov/walsh/pr_011698.htm
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| | Bobby Sands - Politics.ie Wiki |
| | Bobby Sands Irish Republican Army died on hunger strike on May 5th 1981. | | | This page was last modified 00:32, 10 Mar 2006. | | | He had joined the IRA in 1972, at the age of eighteen, and was promptly interned for four years. |
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http://www.politics.ie/wiki/index.php?title=Bobby_Sands
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| | Bobby Sands |
| | This in turn would force the British to admit that they were facing a real political movement that had at its core actual, deep seated problems. | | | Bobby was not the only one to die, but he has remained probably the most famous because he wrote some very lovely and memorable poetry during his time in jail. | | | Bobby Sands was a young man who died after 65 days on a hunger strike in (cell block H of) a Northern Irish prison in May of 1981. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lorettapage/irish/bobbysands.html
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| | Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article |
| | Denis Donaldson was famously photographed arm-in-arm with the republican movement's greatest icon Bobby Sands. | | | How a friend of republican icon Bobby Sands became informer | | | After his release from prison Donaldson became a key strategist in the development of Sinn Féin in the mid 1980s. |
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http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2005/dec17_sands_friend.php
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| | Berkeley Daily Planet |
| | Margaret Thatcher, holding the British prime minister office at the time, refused to ca ve in to his demand until Sands finally died in prison as a result. | | | In fact at a Friday noon prayer sermon, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (then the president and now the supreme leader) went on to portray Sands as a martyr—and rightly so—and highly praised him all he could and downgraded the British government and its political and judiciary system all he could. | | | His memory perhaps had failed to remind him of the time when his appointer—the holy supreme leader—had praised Bobby Sands’ hunger strike over two decades ago. |
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http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=07-15-05&storyID=21861
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| | Madden & Finucane Solicitors: Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture |
| | It was a statement made by the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the time, Sir Humphrey Atkins, shortly after Bobby Sands’ death. | | | It was developed in the early 1980s and nurtured in the years that followed, using state resources and state personnel. | | | I have no doubt that his contribution today would have been just as significant, if not more, than that of 20 years ago. |
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/place/ger47/case_index/pat_finucane/2004-05-07.htm
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| | Bibliofemme: One Day in my Life by Bobby Sands |
| | Released in 1976, he was re-arrested just six months later and sentenced to fourteen years for possession of a gun. | | | Sands was returned to the newly built H-Blocks at Long Kesh. | | | A member of the IRA since the early seventies, Sands served his first prison term as a 'special category' or political prisoner in the Maze prison at Long Kesh. |
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http://www.bibliofemme.com/others/bobsands.shtml
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| | Bobby Sands |
| | He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish Republican Activities. | | | Bobby Sands was twenty seven years old when he died. | | | Bobby Sands gained world-wide recognition due to his hunger strike which he refused to abandon, defiantly withstanding political and moral pressure. |
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http://bobbysands.com
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| | Bobby Sands |
| | The family moved to a Catholic housing settlement in West Belfast. | | | Growing up in these areas led to a nature of hate that most Catholics have being in the segregated areas of Belfast. | | | However, the anti-Catholic attitudes raised their heads and the Sands family was forced to move in 1962 to another predominately Protestant ghetto in Belfast. |
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http://www.radessays.com/link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=84128
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| | Bobby Sands |
| | I was and still am sympathetic to the Republican cause, if not their methods. | | | I am a citizen of the United States and a member of the world and what Bobby Sands (and his fellow inmates) did to publicize the issues and conditions on political prisoners of war in Northern Ireland was very heroic. | | | He exerted his free-will and chose to do one of the few things that his captors were unwilling to prevent. |
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http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=16543
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| | RNW: The Legacy of Bobby Sands: Picture Gallery |
| | Margaret Thatcher was the British Prime Minister at the time...the worst case scenario that you could have." | | | Brendan MacFarlane, who took over as leader of the prisoners when Boby Sands went on hunger strike | | | Excerpts from "Bobby Sands´ Legacy", a two-part radio documentary produced by Perro de Jong and Jan Schuurman and broadcast as part of Radio Netherlands´ Wide Angle series on 27 May and 3 June 2001. |
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http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/westerneurope/northernireland010727.html
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| | Talk:Bobby Sands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bobby also surrendered his life so that the cause of those persecuted in Northern Ireland could be known around the world. | | | He did not because he knew he had to sacrafice his life so that others could gain entrance into heaven. | | | He had also joined a group which was committed to destabilising life for the people of Northern Ireland through violence and anarchism, and which had murdered more Roman Catholics than any other single organisation single the Troubles began. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bobby_Sands
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| | Bobby Sands' Diary - H Blocks Long Kesh |
| | Bobby Sands recorded his diary for the first sevenmteen days of his hunger strike in which he detailed his thoughts and feelings on the momentous task that lay ahead of him. | | | In order to secure his status as Irish political prisoner he was willing to fast til death, an event that would earn him a place in the annals of Irish history and in the hearts and minds of Irish republicans world wide. | | | (On being sentenced, Jennifer McCann said: 'I am a Republican prisoner of war and at the moment my comrade Bobby Sands is on hunger-strike to defend my rights as a political prisoner.') I was touched and proud, she is my comrade. |
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http://www.irishhungerstrike.com/bobbysdiary.html
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| | Starry Plough: Bobby Sands, of the Twinbrook "Liberty" |
| | This, alongside his extraordinary courage, is the main lesson to be drawn from his young life, which in its short duration did more for the Irish working class than the parasites who claim to represent Bobby's people. | | | Bobby was an exemplary proponent of the real revolutionary, and he proved that well before his hunger strike. | | | It is people like the Sands family who will change history, not the careerist politicians of Westminister and Leinster House. |
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http://www.irsm.org/history/starryplough/bobby_sands.html
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| | Bobby Sands Trust |
| | The civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane, an advisor to the Trust, was assassinated by loyalist paramilitaries in collusion with British intelligence in 1989. | | | The Bobby Sands Trust holds the copyright on all Bobby's poetry and prose and was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of this young Irish man, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans. | | | The Trust is made up of comrades of Bobby. |
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http://www.bobbysands.ie
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| | Ireland Ours |
| | Republicans urge Iran not to rename Bobby Sands St Supporters of the republican movement have launched an internet campaign urging the Iranian Government not to re-name a street in Tehran that was named after the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. | | | The Iranian authorities named the street after Bobby Sands following his death on hunger strike in 1981. | | | Why should the british embassy staff be constantly reminded about a terror campaiggn lasting 30years. |
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http://groups.msn.com/IrelandOurs/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=12682&LastModified=4675460744766183242
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| | HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE WEB PROJECT |
| | Bobby Sands: Irish Rebel: A Self-Portrait in Poetry and Polemics Issued on the 10th Anniversary of His Death | | | Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland | | | As others have said, Bobby Sands is alive, wherever a hunger strike for justice takes place. |
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http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes
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| | Amazon.co.uk: One Day in My Life: Books |
| | i first came to know bobby sands through his writings from prison this is were i came to love his magical way of writing.this book is an insight to the life of a brillant talented,determined man.this book protrays just how amazing the men on the h blocks actually were. | | | bobby sands and the other young men who died on the 1981 hunger strike were amzing men with unquestionable characters. | | | Buy One Day in My Life with The Provos: IRA and Sinn Fein today! |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856353494
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| | New Books |
| | Most importantly, the book traces the development of an ordinary boy from a working class background to the highly politicised, articulate revolutionary that he became in later years.' | | | 'Denis O'Hearn in his gripping, heart stopping, exhilarating sometimes sad book, Bobby Sands, tells an extraordinary story of life, love and noble death. | | | He has done work for such publications as Magill, Leinster Leader and The Irish Times. |
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http://www.sinnfeinbookshop.com/en-us/dept_3.html
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| | Bobby Sands - Forum |
| | Or gaze upon the snowflake pure to calm his deep despair | | | Forever we'll remember him that man who died in pain | | | Who was given 30,000 votes while in captivity |
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| | An Englishman's Castle: February 2005 Archives |
| | This will be because the issues of an over crowded society are not being addressed by the state. | | | It was further noted at this times that the British criminal classes did not murder Bobbies (in the main) and only the lowest of the lowest did not go quietly and resist an arrest. | | | And then the one where I thought I had nothing wrong, and she didn't let on for a week the reason for the marital frostiness was that I went to sleep at the table for twenty minutes - I didn't fall into the pudding though... |
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http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/2005_02.html
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| | marcella32's Xanga Site |
| | “I also recognised the cell Bobby Sands died in because I saw him there the Sunday before and Raymond McCreesh’s cell was right beside Bobby’s. |
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http://www.xanga.com/marcella32
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| | Bobby Sands - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | An outfit known as the Strand Roof Orchestra under the direction of bandleader Billy Fowler has been identified by swinging archaeologists as the earliest professional affiliation of Bobby Sands, a tenor and baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn early in the 20th century. | | | Fowler's group was active in 1927, but it is Sands' performances in the following decade that are flesh around.. | | | Bobby Sands - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,489104,00.html
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| | ARTicles: Kevin -- Why I stood up for Bobby Sands |
| | Expulsion would be an odd reward for telling hard truths | | | Kevin -- Why I stood up for Bobby Sands -- 06.07.03 | | | ARTicles: Kevin -- Why I stood up for Bobby Sands |
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http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000214.php
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Yes I sing of the late great Bobby Sands. | | | To stop the evil tyrants in their craze, |
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