G.B. Northern Ireland. Belfast. A march through Catholic West Belfast in support of the Irish Republican hunger striker, Bobby SANDS, who was on his 59th day of refusing food and was to die within a week. Bobby SANDS went on hunger strike in response to the British Government's refusal to recognise the Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland as political prisoners, and allow them to wear civilian clothes.

Demonstrators wear blankets in what was known as 'Going on the Blanket' where prisoners in the Maze Prison refused to wear prison clothes and defaced their cells with excrement. Also known as the 'The Dirty Protest'.

1981.