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Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture
This weekend saw the 23rd anniversary of the death of Bobby
Sands, the first Irish republican prisoner of war to die in the
H Block hunger strike of 1981.
The annual Bobby Sands Memorial Lecture was delivered last weekend by Michael Finucane, son of Belfast defence lawyer Patrick Finucane, who was shot dead by the UDA pro-British death squad in 1989.
The following is an edited version of Mr Finucane’s address.