Bobby Sands

And, you know, guys like James McLean are quite within their rights to say, no, I'm not going to, I don't have any respect for this and I'm not going to do it.

And if you asked any football team in Scotland or England to hold a minute's silence for any of Ireland's war dead, What do you think the result would be? Do you think that would be impeccably observed? Do you know what I mean? Say on the anniversary of Bobby Sands dying on Hunger Street, they decided they were going to have a minute's silence at Ibrox.

How do you think that would go down? Do you know what I mean? It wouldn't go down.

It would be like a lead balloon.

So with that kind of background, here's the Lord Jesus traveling with disciples going through a very, very dangerous area.

It's like when I first came to this country many, many years ago, I drove over with my English registration and thought it'd be a great idea to drive down the Falls Road with a short haircut and then stop at the Middletown Cemetery to go and look for the grave of Bobby Sands.

I look back and think, you stupid boy, you were asking for trouble.

Well, multiply that many, many times and here's the Lord Jesus in Samaria.

But I did actually, I was the only person who was interested in Northern Ireland.

So I was writing talks about Northern Ireland at the time of the hunger strikes and Bobby Sands' death.

I mean,

I was doing it from an office in Bush House.

Here is Ted Koppel.

Bobby Sands is dead.

The 27-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army who went on a protest hunger strike 66 days ago has died.

The British press office in Belfast announced this evening that Sands died at 1.17 Tuesday morning, Belfast time.

Sands, who was serving a 14-year prison term on a weapons possession charge, had been demanding special status as a political prisoner.

A number of other Irish Republican Army members, also imprisoned by the British, have joined Sands in his protest, and several of them are also well into a hunger strike.

To repeat, Bobby Sands, 27 years old and surrounded by members of his family at Mays Prison in Belfast, died tonight in the 66th day of his hunger strike.

We'll have further details tonight on Nightline.

before or after 1945.

You know, I can think of people who the communists tried to glom onto, like Bobby Sands, which was very misguided because Sands certainly wasn't one of them.

People like from the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, you know, years after the fact, they'd show up, you know, wearing Che Guevara badges and stuff before it became like some idiot hipster thing in like the 2000s.

It was it's ironic because like the PFLP general command and people like that would, you know, would would employ his visage.