One Day in My Life
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One Day In My Life | |
Author | Bobby Sands |
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Country | Ireland |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Autobiographical novel |
Publisher | Mercier Press |
Publication date | 1983 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 118 pp (first new edition, paperback) |
ISBN | ISBN 1856353494 / 978-1856353496 (first new edition, paperback) |
One Day in My Life is an autobiographical novel written by Bobby Sands while serving a fourteen year sentence at Long Kesh, for possession of a gun as a member of the Irish Republican Army.
The novel was originally written on "toilet paper with a biro refill... hidden inside Sands' own body" during the winter of 1979.[1] and first published in 1983. It recounts Sands' mental, physical, and sectarian struggles over a single day while he was taking part in the blanket protest against the removal of prisoners' political status by the British Government.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Sands, Bobby. One Day in My Life. Mercier Press. Dublin: 2001. p.18