What's the source of your information?
Since Sands is dead we can't ask him. I have also been told, that the Sands family are Protestants including Sands father.
I'll wait to hear from Jim Heartfield's pals on this one.
Sincerely,
Tom Lehman
wendy lyon wrote:
> Tom Lehman wrote:
>
> > The whole deal in Ireland is beyond me. The Sand's business was ugly. I was
> > told that Sands was a Protestant who wanted peace.
>
> Someone was pulling your chain. Bobby Sands was Catholic and the
> leader of his local unit of the Provisional IRA.
>
> This doesn't in any way justify his treatment in prison, of course.
>
> wendy