IRA Honor Guard at Bobby Sands' Funeral
Masked members of an IRA honor guard bear the coffin of hunger striker Bobby Sands to his grave. He and nine other prisoners in Belfast's Crumlin Road jail began the strike on March 1, 1981; Sands died early on the 66th day.

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