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Episode: Christy Moore Gig | ‘Hope should never Die’ – Bobby Sands | An Clogán
Description: ‘Hope should never Die’ – Bobby SandsWednesday 20th August marks the anniversary of the death on hunger strike in 1981 of Mickey Devine. Mickey was the last of the ten men to die and several weeks later the hunger strike end on 3 October. It was also the day the by-election was held in Fermanagh South Tyrone caused by the death in May of Bobby Sands. Owen Carron successfully held the seat as the ‘Anti-H-Block/Proxy Political Prisoner’ candidate.This Sunday the annual National Hunger Strike March and Rally will take place in Belfast. Republicans and others...