Bobby Sands and the IRA Plot To Kill Margaret Thatcher (Part One)

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When ten incarcerated Irish Republicans starved themselves to death in a British prison, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher became the object of one of the most audacious assassination attempts in British history.

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