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Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 bombing of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and he was sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.
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When I was a wee buck growing up in Ballymurphy there was a river at the back of the houses across from our home place at the corner of Glenalina Road and Divismore Park. The river ran the length of our street and the length of Ballymurphy Road before exiting below the Whiterock R…
Alphas Make Sandwiches Ep. 69: Getting the Sack, Join or Die & The Birth of Globalism
It's episode 69, hey hey, and the ladies are not going to mention it. Jackie shares the pet photo challenge submissions including her bird who tried to drink her reflection water, and Ashe tells the proper version of Caleb's eighth birthday in Manhattan involving the Intrepid, Spider-Man dropping w…
Should we rename Irish streets that carry a British legacy?
Republican organisation Lasair Dhearg recently “renamed” Dublin’s Drury Street to “Bobby Sands Street”. In a video online they said Irish streets should not be named after the likes of William Drury, a British soldier who was Lord Justice of Ireland in the 16th century.
Should we reconsider the na…
Kevin Francis Gray: Striding Youth
See pictures and read more on materiallyspeaking.com Kevin talks about his childhood in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, and how the experience of his teenage years coloured his life. He opens up about how his work explores family relationships - sons, fathers and toxic masculinity.
He studied at ar…
Bobby Sands, Margaret Thatcher, and the 1981 hunger strikes
On 5 May 1981, 26-year-old Bobby Sands became the first of ten IRA hunger strikers to die at the Maze Prison, changing the course of history in Northern Ireland. In this episode, Diarmaid and Catriona assess his life, his status as a Republican icon, and how he impacted the career of his chief anta…
Connection between Belfast and Palestine
Fra Hughes, a Belfast-born activist and author of Kidnapped on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza 2026, grew up during the Troubles in 1960s–70s North Belfast—a world of armed British soldiers on the streets, sectarian division, and, as a teenager, a near-abduction by loyalist paramilitaries, the Sh…
Best of What Were We Like (Part 1)
Diarmaid and Catriona are on holidays, so RTE's podcast intern, Arran has selected some of his favourite parts of What Were We Like so far. Bobby Sands, The Contraceptive Train, and John Charles McQuaid all feature in the first part of this "Best of" series. Part 2 of Arran's selections will be out…
Belfast: Belfast violence sparks tourism crisis and calls for unity | June 15
Belfast faces a tourism crisis as violence deters visitors and leaders like Mike Nesbitt condemn the impact, while anti-racism rallies and debates over the Bobby Sands statue planning row dominate local politics. Meanwhile, hoteliers resist student block conversions, and a Newtownabbey optometrist …
#823 Best Of - IRA Prisoner Jake Mac Siacais
In this episode which was originally released in 2017, Paul sits down with the former IRA fighter/volunteer who shares his people’s history, his years of imprisonment & torture by Protestants and the British govt, the responsibility he feels for civilian lives that were taken by his organization, w…
The Many Lives of Laurence McKeown
Laurence McKeown may be the most multi-hyphenate of any of the guests we’ve welcomed on Dyed Green thus far. A former IRA volunteer, Laurence spent 16 years in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh—four of which were spent on the blanket as part of the no-wash protest. He joined the 1981 Hunger Strike alongsid…
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