cover image Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland

Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland

John Feehan. Permanent Press (NY), $16 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-932966-65-0

Feehan, a self-described ""average Southern Irishman,'' came to regard Bobby Sands, the IRA martyr who died during a hunger strike in Long Kesh detention camp, as a ``kind of moral catalyst.'' In this opinionated work, ``he makes understandable a people's plight,'' PW commented. (April)