Bobby sands - writings from prison

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons - abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gerry Adams, Bobby Sands, The Bobby Sands Trust
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2001
• EAN: 9781856352208
• ISBN: 978-1-85635-220-8
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies