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There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

Bobby Sands

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Bobby Sands
Age: 27 †
Born: 1954
Born: March 9
Died: 1981
Died: May 5
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Robert Gerard Sands
Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh
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Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.
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