Meanwhile, On Bobby Sands Street

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Donie adds:

With the news the the UK is reopening its embassy in Iran, a bit of trivia your readers may find interesting…

Bobby Sands Street?

CONTEXT: Britain to reopen embassy in Tehran this weekend after four years (Guardian)

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24 thoughts on “Meanwhile, On Bobby Sands Street

  1. spud1

    To ensure letters to the embassy didn’t have to use Sands’ name, they sealed their main entrance on the street.

    Officials then broke down a wall at the side of their compound, and so their address changed to Ferdowdsi Avenue…

  2. Starina

    that’s why the embassy moved their front door to the back door. (that’s what she said) nice one, Iran.

    1. D2dweller

      Winston Churchill? It would be more fitting if they put it back in his name. Now there was a great parliamentarian

    1. Odis

      Yes good ol’ Ayatollah Khomeini. What a guy, what a guy what a meat pie. The world’s not been the same place since he passed away 27 years ago.

  3. Manta Rae

    I see Storyful has its finger on the pulse…

    Nuthin’ on the internet gets by these fellas

  4. classter

    The Irish Embassy’s Passport & visa section in London is on Cromwell Road.

    Apparently named after Oliver’s lackluster son who had inherited the position of ‘Lord Protector’ (dictator) from his auld lad.

  5. Bonkers

    Theres a cafe in Tehran called the Bobby Sands Burger Bar, complete with walls adorned with pictures of his life and the hunger strikes. The ironing.

    1. Bobby - different one

      The Bobby Sands burger bar in Tehran is brilliantly fashioned with the colours from the wrong side of the sectarian divide. Apparently most people in Tehran don’t know anything about Ireland, but lots of them know the name Bobby Sands. Good martyrdom connectin s’pouse.

      I also love the story of deh brits busting out the side wall of the embassy in order to avoid the humiliation of using Sands’ name on their postal address.

      Iran, I’d fecking love to go someday.

  6. Conor

    Jeez, I though even the dogs on the street knew this. The internet really is beginning to recycle itself over and over.

  7. H

    I suppose they could rename all of the surrounding streets, so they could also have Bobby Sands Avenue, Bobby Sands Road and Bobby Sands Way….

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