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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (3671)	11/21/2006 11:37:17 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5290

At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in music, girls and soccer.Ten years later, he led his fellow prisoners on a protest that grabbed the world's attention.Bobby Sands turned twenty-seven on hunger strike, after spending almost nine years in prison because of his activities as a member of the Irish Republican Army.When he died on May 5, 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike against repressive conditions in Northern Ireland's H-Block prisons, parliaments across the world stopped for a minute's silence in his honour.Nelson Mandela followed his example and led a similar hunger strike in South Africa.Bobby Sands' remarkable life and death have made him the Irish Che Guevara.He is an enduring figure of resistance whose life has inspired millions around the world. actually I talked politics with a wide variety of people in Ireland "You have to let go of the anger towards the British, let go, not forget" "We accept every day for what it is, for who knows what tomorrow might yet again bring" "If Northern Ireland entered the Republic there would be civil war" "I'm ashamed of what my country [England] did to the Irish" the Irish Republic economy is thriving, less than 1% unemployment - perhaps that will be the road to the long sought after final unity and sovereignty of Ireland