Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation William F. Cody produced and directed the Showtime

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Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation William F. Cody produced and directed the ShowtimeBobby Sands was twenty seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his activities as a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). When he died on 5 May 1981, on the sixty sixth day of his hunger strike against repressive prison conditions in Northern Ireland's H Block prisons, parliaments across the world stopped for a minute silence in his honor. Nelson Mandela followed Sands' example and led a similar