Artist to make Bobby Sands film

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen has confirmed his first feature film - about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen has confirmed his first feature film - about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

Hunger focuses on the last six weeks in the life of Sands, leader of the 1981 IRA hunger strike at the notorious Maze prison.

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