Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland. Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner Bobby Sands (played by John Lynch) led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners, claiming that they should be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals.
Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Terry George, co-written with Jim Sheridan, and based on the actual events of the 1981 hunger strike in Northern Ireland. IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (played by John Lynch) led a protest against the mistreatment of his fellow prisoners, arguing that they should be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals.