Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland

Auteur

John M. Feehan was born in County Tipperary. After a number of years in the regular army he resigned to devote his life to business and literature. He founded the successful Cork-based publishing house Mercier Press in 1944. He is the author of many other books including My Village - My World and The Secret Places of the Burren. He died in 1991.

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The story of Sands, who was elected a member of Parliament while imprisoned by the British government and died after a sixty-six day hunger strike; a background to the crisis of Northern Ireland.