Tony Benn broke down in tears at the Edinburgh Book Festival on August 14th, 2008 as he recalled the late Bobby Sands, the republican MP and Officer Commanding IRA political prisoners H-Blocks who died while on hunger strike in the Long Kesh prison, Belfast, in 1981. “Our revenge, Bobby Sands said, will be the laughter of our children,” he said, as tears began to stream down his cheeks. “I’m sorry, but it moves me greatly.”
BOBBY SANDS TRUST
The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.