The Bobby Sands Trust

Broschiertes Buch

Writings From Prison

Beschreibung

With dry humour, this book charts, in prose and poetry, one man's attempt to preserve his identity while in prison and on hunger strike.

Autor

Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old and had been on hunger strike for sixty-six days when he died on 5 May 1981. The young IRA volunteer was world-famous by the time of his death, having spent the last nine years of his short life in prison and been elected, while still a prisoner, to the British parliament. The hunger strike was aimed at rebutting the British government's attempts to criminalise the struggle for Irish freedom by changing Sands' and his fellow cellmates' status from political to criminal. While behind bars, Sands secretly wrote on toilet paper and cigarette papers with the refill of a cheap pen that he kept hidden inside his body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Mercier Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9781856352208
• ISBN-10: 185635220X
• Artikelnr.: 26971856