“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.”

— Bobby Sands

Diary entry http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/diary.html, (1 March 1981), the first day of his hunger strike, in Skylark Sing your Lonely Song : An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands (1991).
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Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1954–1981

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