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Bobby Sands 66 Days: Where are the films of terrorist atrocities? Asks William Frazer

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright Expand
Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook. Expand
Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland. Expand
Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981 Expand
Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin Expand
PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981 Expand
A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast Expand
Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery. Expand
Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team. Expand
Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery Expand
Several unionist politicians have called for Maze cells which housed hunger strikers to be flattened Expand
Bobby Sands funeral Expand
©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition. Expand
Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands Expand
Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike Expand
Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes Expand

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Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook.

Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook.

Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland.

Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland.

Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981

Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981

Brian Farrell/Photocall Ireland!

Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin

Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin

Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981

PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981

A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast

A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery.

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery.

Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team.

Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team.

Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery

Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery

Several unionist politicians have called for Maze cells which housed hunger strikers to be flattened

Several unionist politicians have called for Maze cells which housed hunger strikers to be flattened

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Bobby Sands funeral

©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition.

©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition.

Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands

Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands

Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike

Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes

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Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Victims' campaigner William Frazer has asked where the films are of terrorist atrocities in response to the release of the latest film on IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

66 Days is a cinematic portrait of Sands' fast at the height of the Troubles in 1981.

Unionists have been angered that public money has been used to fund the documentary.

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In his take, victims' campaigner William Frazer asked when films would be made about terrorist atrocities in Northern Ireland.

"Let's see these films," he said in a video on Facebook.

"Let's see the films of the Kingsmills massacre, of the butchery of the Protestant people of south Armagh. Where are these films

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"Where's the film about the Shankill bomb? La Mon? Londonderry? Bloody Friday? Where are these films?

"They are not there as they don't glorify terrorism.

"This is glorifying murderers. You can paint it whatever way you want, but that's what it is.

Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Gerry and Margaret Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook. Expand
Sabina Cherek, Rabek Cherek and Alina Grychta are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Loretta Van der horst and Marco bij le Veld pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Alex Maskey, Liz Maskey, Patricia Maskey and Paul Maskey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Pauline and Padraig Omuirigh are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 John Darcy, Eamonn Mallie and John Darcy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland. Expand
Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981 Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Bairbre de Brún, Sile Darragh, Mary Doyle and Carál Ní Chuilín are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne and Colm Scullion are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Olivia Byrne, Sharon Darby and Greg Darby are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin Expand
PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981 Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sheila, Ella, Mia and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Colm Scullion and Peter Bryson are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Laurence McKeown, Michelle Beyers and Lachlan Whalen are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michael and Betty Doherty are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Niall Ó Donnghaile, Irene Sherry and Dominic Adams are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery. Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Danny Devenny and Paddy Molloy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Denzil McDaniel, David McDaniel and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team. Expand
Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Aisling Higgins, Trevor Birney and Paul Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Fran Rowlatt McCormick, Ben Rowlatt McCormick, Andrew Tully and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Trevor Birney, Martin McCann and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Wright, Catherine James, Jennifer Wright, Siobhan Wright and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Rita Harkin and Stephen Douds are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sharon Curran and Eva Grossman are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
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©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition. Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Aisling and Seamus Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Paul Mullin and Cathy Church are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Ciaran Morrison and Cath Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes Expand

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Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Gerry and Margaret Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Gerry and Margaret Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook.

Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook.

Sabina Cherek, Rabek Cherek and Alina Grychta are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Sabina Cherek, Rabek Cherek and Alina Grychta are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Loretta Van der horst and Marco bij le Veld pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Loretta Van der horst and Marco bij le Veld pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Alex Maskey, Liz Maskey, Patricia Maskey and Paul Maskey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Alex Maskey, Liz Maskey, Patricia Maskey and Paul Maskey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Pauline and Padraig Omuirigh are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Pauline and Padraig Omuirigh are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 John Darcy, Eamonn Mallie and John Darcy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 John Darcy, Eamonn Mallie and John Darcy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland.

Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland.

Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981

Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981

Brian Farrell/Photocall Ireland!

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Bairbre de Brún, Sile Darragh, Mary Doyle and Carál Ní Chuilín are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Bairbre de Brún, Sile Darragh, Mary Doyle and Carál Ní Chuilín are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne and Colm Scullion are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne and Colm Scullion are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Olivia Byrne, Sharon Darby and Greg Darby are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Olivia Byrne, Sharon Darby and Greg Darby are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin

Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin

Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland

PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981

PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sheila, Ella, Mia and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sheila, Ella, Mia and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Colm Scullion and Peter Bryson are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Colm Scullion and Peter Bryson are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast

A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Laurence McKeown, Michelle Beyers and Lachlan Whalen are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Laurence McKeown, Michelle Beyers and Lachlan Whalen are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michael and Betty Doherty are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michael and Betty Doherty are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Niall Ó Donnghaile, Irene Sherry and Dominic Adams are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Niall Ó Donnghaile, Irene Sherry and Dominic Adams are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery.

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery.

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Danny Devenny and Paddy Molloy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Danny Devenny and Paddy Molloy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Denzil McDaniel, David McDaniel and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Denzil McDaniel, David McDaniel and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team.

Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team.

Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery

Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Aisling Higgins, Trevor Birney and Paul Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Aisling Higgins, Trevor Birney and Paul Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Fran Rowlatt McCormick, Ben Rowlatt McCormick, Andrew Tully and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Fran Rowlatt McCormick, Ben Rowlatt McCormick, Andrew Tully and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Trevor Birney, Martin McCann and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Trevor Birney, Martin McCann and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Wright, Catherine James, Jennifer Wright, Siobhan Wright and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Wright, Catherine James, Jennifer Wright, Siobhan Wright and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Rita Harkin and Stephen Douds are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Rita Harkin and Stephen Douds are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sharon Curran and Eva Grossman are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sharon Curran and Eva Grossman are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Bobby Sands funeral

Bobby Sands funeral

©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition.

©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition.

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands

Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike

Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Aisling and Seamus Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Aisling and Seamus Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Paul Mullin and Cathy Church are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Paul Mullin and Cathy Church are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Ciaran Morrison and Cath Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Ciaran Morrison and Cath Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes

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Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

"And shame on those that have produced this."

Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Gerry and Margaret Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook. Expand
Sabina Cherek, Rabek Cherek and Alina Grychta are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Loretta Van der horst and Marco bij le Veld pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Alex Maskey, Liz Maskey, Patricia Maskey and Paul Maskey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Pauline and Padraig Omuirigh are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 John Darcy, Eamonn Mallie and John Darcy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland. Expand
Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981 Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Bairbre de Brún, Sile Darragh, Mary Doyle and Carál Ní Chuilín are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne and Colm Scullion are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Olivia Byrne, Sharon Darby and Greg Darby are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin Expand
PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981 Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sheila, Ella, Mia and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Colm Scullion and Peter Bryson are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Laurence McKeown, Michelle Beyers and Lachlan Whalen are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michael and Betty Doherty are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Niall Ó Donnghaile, Irene Sherry and Dominic Adams are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery. Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Danny Devenny and Paddy Molloy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Denzil McDaniel, David McDaniel and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team. Expand
Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Aisling Higgins, Trevor Birney and Paul Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Fran Rowlatt McCormick, Ben Rowlatt McCormick, Andrew Tully and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Trevor Birney, Martin McCann and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Wright, Catherine James, Jennifer Wright, Siobhan Wright and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Rita Harkin and Stephen Douds are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sharon Curran and Eva Grossman are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Bobby Sands funeral Expand
©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition. Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Aisling and Seamus Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Paul Mullin and Cathy Church are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Ciaran Morrison and Cath Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye Expand
Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes Expand

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Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Gerry and Margaret Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Gerry and Margaret Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Mary Nellis and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook.

Hunger striker Bobby Sands' coffin, flanked by an IRA colour party, leaving his mother's home in Twinbrook.

Sabina Cherek, Rabek Cherek and Alina Grychta are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Sabina Cherek, Rabek Cherek and Alina Grychta are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Loretta Van der horst and Marco bij le Veld pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Loretta Van der horst and Marco bij le Veld pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Mary Nellis, Mitchel McLaughlin and Mary Kay Hinphey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Alex Maskey, Liz Maskey, Patricia Maskey and Paul Maskey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Alex Maskey, Liz Maskey, Patricia Maskey and Paul Maskey are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Pauline and Padraig Omuirigh are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Pauline and Padraig Omuirigh are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 John Darcy, Eamonn Mallie and John Darcy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 John Darcy, Eamonn Mallie and John Darcy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Leontia McKenna and Peter Lynch are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland.

Tomboy Loudon, Gerry Roche, Denis Donaldson and Bobby Sands pictured in the Long Kesh prison, Northern Ireland.

Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981

Hunger strike protesters outside the Dail in Dublin 1981

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Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Bairbre de Brún, Sile Darragh, Mary Doyle and Carál Ní Chuilín are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Bairbre de Brún, Sile Darragh, Mary Doyle and Carál Ní Chuilín are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne and Colm Scullion are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne and Colm Scullion are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Olivia Byrne, Sharon Darby and Greg Darby are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Olivia Byrne, Sharon Darby and Greg Darby are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin

Hunger strike marchers blocked by gardai as they approach the British Embassy in Dublin

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PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981

PACEMAKER BELFAST Rioting in west Belfast on the day hunger striker Bobby Sands died in 1981

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sheila, Ella, Mia and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sheila, Ella, Mia and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Colm Scullion and Peter Bryson are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Colm Scullion and Peter Bryson are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast

A man walks past the Bobby Sands mural, in the Falls road area of Belfast

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Laurence McKeown, Michelle Beyers and Lachlan Whalen are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Laurence McKeown, Michelle Beyers and Lachlan Whalen are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michael and Betty Doherty are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michael and Betty Doherty are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Niall Ó Donnghaile, Irene Sherry and Dominic Adams are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Niall Ó Donnghaile, Irene Sherry and Dominic Adams are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery.

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots beside hunger striker Bobby Sands coffin, at Milltown Cemetery.

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Professor Siobhan O'Neill and Professor Deirdre Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Danny Devenny and Paddy Molloy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Danny Devenny and Paddy Molloy are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Denzil McDaniel, David McDaniel and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Denzil McDaniel, David McDaniel and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team.

Deceased hunger striker Bobby Sands (seated fourth from left). The Star of the Sea football team.

Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery

Hunger striker Bobby Sands funeral procession making its way down Stewartstown Road on Route to Milltown cemetery

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Aisling Higgins, Trevor Birney and Paul Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Aisling Higgins, Trevor Birney and Paul Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Fran Rowlatt McCormick, Ben Rowlatt McCormick, Andrew Tully and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Fran Rowlatt McCormick, Ben Rowlatt McCormick, Andrew Tully and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Byrne, Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Trevor Birney, Martin McCann and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Trevor Birney, Martin McCann and Brendan Byrne are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Wright, Catherine James, Jennifer Wright, Siobhan Wright and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Brendan Wright, Catherine James, Jennifer Wright, Siobhan Wright and Trevor Birney are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Rita Harkin and Stephen Douds are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Rita Harkin and Stephen Douds are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sharon Curran and Eva Grossman are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Sharon Curran and Eva Grossman are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Bobby Sands funeral

Bobby Sands funeral

©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition.

©Jonathan Porter/Presseye.com - Press Eye Ltd -Northern Ireland - 1st March 2011. Launch of the Hunger Strike 30th Anniversary Exhibition in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Ten republican prisoners died during the 1981 protest inside the Maze Prison. A letter written by Bobby Sands on cigarette paper which was smuggled out of the prison pictured at the exhibition.

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Michele Devlin, festival director, Belfast film festival pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands

Michael Fassbender stars in Hunger, the film about the last six weeks in the life of Bobby Sands

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 The audience at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike

Kieran Doherty died in the Maze prison in 1981 after being on a hunger strike

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Aisling and Seamus Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Aisling and Seamus Higgins are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Paul Mullin and Cathy Church are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Paul Mullin and Cathy Church are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Ciaran Morrison and Cath Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Press Eye Belfast - Northern Ireland - 31st July 2016 Ciaran Morrison and Cath Kelly are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald pleaded with Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher over the hunger strikes

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Dougie Adams, Jane Adams, Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Ronan Heenan are pictured at the film premiere of Bobby Sands: 66 Days at the Omniplex Cinema at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast. The premiere was hosted with Féile An Phobail and West Belfast Film Festival. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

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