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In what year did Bobby Sands pass away?

  • 1981

  • 1976

  • 1945

  • 2000

Answer

In 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish republican and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, passed away. He had been imprisoned in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland and had embarked on a hunger strike to protest the British government's treatment of republican prisoners. His death, along with that of nine other hunger strikers, gained significant global attention and became a rallying point for Irish nationalism.
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