Diaries of Bobby Sands republished in Colin Firth’s new “The People Speak” project

Bobby Sands was part of a failed attempt to coerce northern unionists into a socialist entity…

merefalow - You need to check your facts...voting franchise across the UK was extended to all males in 1918...

If all the married heroes in the world had "stayed at home" the word would be in a sad state. Your argument is flawed and silly wounded knee.

I guess wounded knee ,you will never understand "Give me Liberty ,or give me Death" Bobby Sands PM understood that implicitly.Something you probably never will!

i know there is almost complete ignorance of irelands history in the majority of the british people,of course that is not true of the governing classes,merely a contemptuous indifference and determination to maintain the status quo of invasion and conquest irispective of right or justice.the american negro achieved one man one vote before the irish in their own country,read it out,it just might educate people a little about injustice.

My first visit to Ireland was as a teenager in that sad year of 1981. Having reflected on what happened that year and subsequently, I believe Sands, Hughes and the others threw away their lives for nothing. Hughes was a single man, and had a right to so as he wished, but I especially question Sands and Joseph McDonell, both of whem were married men with young children (these are the two married hunger strikers I know about, there may have been more). It was quite wrong for them to throw away their lives and leave their children fatherless.

Heard his brother Sean share many of the same sentiments when he visited America and spoke at a local Hibernians Club.While some called him a terrorist,I wrote to our paper that 200 years earlier in our colonies,he would be a Patriot! His cause was the same ,to remove a latter day king George from his colonies!

I look forward to reading this book.

Very interesting...I did my graduate thesis on Bobby Sands and used many excerpts from his diary for my paper. While a prisoner in Long Kesh, Sands, as well as many of his fellow inmates, were brutalized beyond belief by the prison guards (screws); his diary was, at times, difficult to read. Although subject to horrendous, inhumane living conditions and barbaric treatment by the screws, Sands' spirit was never broken. He was an inspiration to the other prisoners and died believing that the ultimate sacrifice-his life-would bring about change to the people of Northern Ireland. He was the leader, and the face, of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

Bravo, Colin Firth!