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Article: REVIEW: One Day in My Life.(book)(Review)(Brief Article)
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- February 25, 2002
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'One Day in My Life' documents a day in late winter, 1979, in which Irish Republican activist Bobby Sands endures the horrors and humiliations of life in Long Kesh prison. Bobby Sands was one of many Blanket Men - so-called because they refused to succumb to being classed as criminals, and so wore blankets instead of prison uniform - who embarked on numerous protests in an attempt to sway the attitudes and practices of the British authorities in Ireland.
Every page of this book, from front to back cover, is instilled with contentious political ire. As this reviewer is a British citizen, I am ...