The Writings of Bobby Sands: A Collection of Prison Writings

Dublin: Irish Northern Aid I.P.O.W. Committee, 1981. First Edition. Octavo with black and purple pictorial stapled wraps; 35 pages: illustrations; 22 cm Very good (-) to good (++); wraps have some scuffing, and small closed tear to front fore edge and light wear to edges and corners; pages are clean; staples are a tad rusted but binding is solid and pages are clean. Stapled wraps.

"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 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.

He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During Sands' strike, he was elected to the UK Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate. His death and those of nine other hunger strikers was followed by a surge of IRA recruitment and activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism." --Wikipedia