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5 May 1981
Bobby Sands
, a member of the Provisional IRA
, died in the Maze Prison
near Belfast, where for two months he had been leading his final hunger strike.
“1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison”. BBC On this day.
Summer 1981
In this bad season for Northern Ireland, the perceived intransigence of Margaret Thatcher
's British government helped the IRA
to increase its support.
11 May 1992
The sentence for terrorist killing which had kept Judith Ward
in prison for eighteen years was overturned on appeal.