Episode 28: My life banged up next door to IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the H-Block
Forty years ago this month, 21-year-old Jake Mac Siacais cried in his H-Block cell as his friend Bobby Sands died on hunger strike.
Jake had been in the next cell to the republican icon, and when Sands left the wing to go to the prison hospital, it was Jake who gave the final address on behalf of the IRA prisoners.
Now 61, Nicola Tallant travels with him to Bobby Sands' grave at the republican plot in Belfast and is given unprecedented access to a man who can shed new light on one of the darkest periods of the Troubles.
Jake had been in the next cell to the republican icon, and when Sands left the wing to go to the prison hospital, it was Jake who gave the final address on behalf of the IRA prisoners.
Now 61, Nicola Tallant travels with him to Bobby Sands' grave at the republican plot in Belfast and is given unprecedented access to a man who can shed new light on one of the darkest periods of the Troubles.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You May Also Like

Missing Persons Mysteries
Steve Stockton

Criminology
Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford

Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns
Hidden Killers Podcast

William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey

Les collections de l'heure du crime
RTL

True Crime Podcast 2025 - Police Interrogations, 911 Calls and True Police Stories Podcast
True Crime Podcast 2026

Solved Murders - True Crime Stories
RedditKing

Serial Killer Podcast Documentary
Peter Jesse

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
True Crime Today

Serial Killers: Real Life Documentaries
Peter Zahr
Community discussion