22/03/2006

  • Weekly Quote (25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strike)


    "... I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.


    I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right .... That is why I am incarcerated, naked and tortured.

    Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that 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.


    ... I ate the statutory weekly bit of fruit last night. As fate had it, it was an orange (the color of Loyalists/Royalists - WR), and the final irony, it was bitter. " - March 1, 1981


    "....We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.


    Would Englishmen allow Germans to occupy their nation or Frenchmen allow Dutchmen to do likewise? ...." - March 10, 1981


    quotes of Bobby Sands (b. 9/Mar/64), MP and Irish political prisoner (imprisoned by the British) in Long Keash Prison (H block) 


    Mr. Sands started his hunger strike on 1/Mar/81 and kept a diary for the first 17 days of his hunger strike.  The diary is found here.


    (There were 10 Hunger Strikers.)


    Various Photos and murals of Mr. Sands, his funeral, and Irish Hunger Strike:









    More later.....

Comments (4)

  • Hey thar ya fightin Irish! lol The math test was for my math class, I was accepted to Liberty but wanted to take an algebra class (Math 100) though not required, but so that it would make the next math class easier. Math and the New Testement Survey class are both going well so far... if I did well on this test that is! ;)

    Interesting thing is, in my math textbook, it didn't state the principle x-(a+b) = x=a-b :) I figured that one out myself after tinkering with the numbers a bit to solve the excersize ;)

  • Without knowing the details of the situation, I'm curious to know: How many Brits did he blow up?  How many Protestants did he kill?  What did he die of/how did he die?  Who "forced" him to start a hunger strike?

  • God save the Queen!

  • Indeed, God Save the Queen (and the rest of us sinners)!

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