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The profiles of the hunger strikers as they first appeared in An Cumann Cabhrach brochure of 1981.
Bobby Sands was born in 1954 in Rathcoole, a predominantly loyalist district of north Belfast. His twenty-seventh birthday fell on the ninth day of his sixty-six day hunger-strike.
The sectarian realities of ghetto life materialised early in Bobby's life when at the age of seven his family were forced to move home owing to loyalist intimidation even as early as 1962.
Of this time Bobby himself later wrote: "1 was only a working-class boy from a nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary...
A Houston institution for 30 years, independant music retailer Cactus, has closed its doors forever citing big box retailers and downloading as their downfall! I think it was their crappy customer service that led to their demise.
So long and...