Bobby Sands Mural
14.09.2025
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| Bobby Sands. Everywhere Irish flags and signs in Gaelic. At the Sinn Féin office, Paddy told us about 1969, when the war began. “The British Army came to ‘protect’ us. At first Catholic women brought soldiers tea and sandwiches. Three years later they were throwing Molotov cocktails. ”The turning point was on July 3–5, 1970. The British Army imposed a 36-hour curfew on the Falls Road. “That was our 9/11,” Paddy said. “From then on it was clear: they weren’t protectors, but occupiers.” Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike in Maze Prison. The H-Blocks became a symbol of British oppression. Sands was no ordinary prisoner — he was an elected Member of Parliament when he died. |