THE Film 66 days on Bobby Sands is be shown shown as part of Gasyard Féile on Aug 4.
It will be introduced by Raymond McCartney who himself spent 53 days on hungerstrike
Raymond McCartney said: “There have been many different angles you can take when addressing the story of the hunger strike but I think the way in which the facts leave people feeling tends to be universal.
“There have been many films and documentaries made in the past and I think people can see how utterly unjustified and wrong it was for the British government to criminialise republican prisoners .
!I think prisoners in Armagh and Long Kesh were epitomised by the 10 men who gave their lives.
“I think anyone seeing this for the first time will agree that republicans were first and foremost political prison.”
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According to the makers of the film, the narrative spine of Bobby Sands: 66 Days is comprised of “Sands’ own words, drawn from his hunger strike diary, eye-witness testimony, unseen archive, reconstructions and animation”.
