Within hours of the news of Bobby Sands’ death reaching the outside world, there were protests throughout Ireland and abroad.
A reader has sent us this newspaper photograph of a march through Cork City centre on Tuesday, May 5th, 1981.
BOBBY SANDS TRUST
The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.