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An Irish demonstration in Manhattan protesting British rule in Northern Ireland and mourning IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who had died 4 days earlier after a 66-day hunger strike demanding that imprisoned IRA members be granted political-prisoner status. (1981)

An Irish demonstration in Manhattan protesting British rule in Northern Ireland and mourning IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who had died 4 days earlier after a 66-day hunger strike demanding that imprisoned IRA members be granted political-prisoner status. (1981)

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