Bobby Sands

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bobby Sands
Occupation	Criminal
Date Of Birth	Mar 9, 1954(1954-03-09)
Age	70
Date Of Death	1981-05-05
Birthplace	Newtownabbey
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northern Ireland
Horoscope	Pisces

Bobby Sands Biography

Bobby Sands is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on March 9, 1954 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Irish Republican Army revolutionary whose death at the age of 27 at the HM Prison Maze caused a explosion of IRA recruitment and activity.

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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 for firearms possession.

By 1966, sectarian violence in Rathcoole, along with the rest of the Belfast metropolitan area, had considerably worsened, and the minority Catholic population there found itself under siege. Despite always having had Protestant friends, Sands suddenly found that none of them would even speak to him, and he quickly learned to associate only with Catholics.

He was married to Geraldine Noade on the 22nd of July in 1972. He had a son named Gerald Sands and a sister named Bernadette Sands McKevitt.

Bobby Sands Net Worth

Bobby Sands is one of the richest Criminal from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bobby Sands 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The IRA was formed by him in 1972. IRA in 1972 and was later arrested for possession of four handguns. After his conviction and sentenced to the three- year portion of his sentence of five years.

He passed away from self-inflicted hunger on the 66th day in his hunger strikes which led to the removal of Special Classification status of IRA prisoners.

Sands was born in 1954 to John and Rosaleen Sands. After marrying, they relocated to the new development of Abbots Cross, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, outside North Belfast. Sands was the eldest of four children. His younger sisters, Marcella and Bernadette, were born in 1955 and 1958, respectively. He also had a younger brother, John, born 1962.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Bobby Sands height 5 ft 9 in Bobby weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Bobby Sands Dating?

According to our records, Bobby Sands married to Geraldine Noade. As of December 1, 2023, Bobby Sands’s is not dating anyone.

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While in prison, Sands had several letters and articles published in the Republican paper An Phoblacht under the pseudonym “Marcella” (his sister’s name). Other writings attributed to him are: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song and One Day in My Life. Sands also wrote the lyrics of “Back Home in Derry” and “McIlhatton”, which were both later recorded by Christy Moore, and “Sad Song For Susan”, which was also later recorded. The melody of “Back Home in Derry” was borrowed from Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The song itself is about the penal transportation of Irishmen in the 19th century to Van Diemen’s Land (modern day Tasmania, Australia).

Facts & Trivia

Bobby Ranked on the list of most popular Criminal. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Bobby Sands celebrates birthday on March 9 of every year.

In late 1980, Sands was chosen Officer Commanding of the Provisional IRA prisoners in the Maze Prison, succeeding Brendan Hughes who was participating in the first hunger strike. Republican prisoners organised a series of protests seeking to regain their previous Special Category Status, which would free them from some ordinary prison regulations. This began with the “blanket protest” in 1976, in which the prisoners refused to wear prison uniforms and wore blankets instead. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to “slop out” (i.e., empty their chamber pots), this escalated into the “dirty protest”, wherein prisoners refused to wash and smeared the walls of their cells with excrement.

How long did Bobby Sands hunger strike last?

Sands died on 5 May 1981 in the Maze’s prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike, aged 27. The original pathologist’s report recorded the hunger strikers’ causes of death as “self-imposed starvation”, amended to simply “starvation” following protests by the dead strikers’ families.

Who went on hunger strike with Bobby Sands?

NameParamilitary affiliationLength of strike
Bobby Sands| IRA| 66 days
Francis Hughes| IRA| 59 days
Raymond McCreesh| IRA| 61 days
Patsy O’Hara| INLA| 61 days

Is Bobby Sands dead?

May 5, 1981

Where is Bobby Sands grave?

Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, United Kingdom

Who died in jail due to hunger strike?

Jatin Das
Died| 13 September 1929 (aged 24) Lahore, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Cause of death| Hunger strike
Nationality| Indian
Other names| Jatin Da