Couldn´t find a page on this guy... so thought I would make one I first heard about him in a movies starring Helen Mirren called "Some Mother´s Son".. he was the leader of a rebellion amongs a buch of inmates in Irish prisons... they where complaining about the conditions, and started a hunger strike... which ended up killing several of them.. the first to die was Bobby Sands. If you can then watch the film.. it´s great - about the mother of one of the striking inmates, who at a point has to choose if she should take her son of the strike or respect his wishes. There´s a new film about it coming called "Hunger" directed by a newcomer Steve Macqueen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands