07 May 1981,
Over 100,000 people met in Northern Ireland at the funeral of IRA militant Bobby Sands. Gose died after 66 days on strike. During the fasting he was elected to represent Sinn Fein. Hundreds of prisoners agreed that every week a person was going to start an indefinite hunger strike as part of the long struggle to get the British Government to recognize their status as political prisoners. Nine other prisoners died in this battle.