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Robert "Big Bobby" Storey〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article )〕 is an Irish republican from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was sentenced to a total of 25 years in jail but was released early under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. Prior to an 18-year conviction for possessing a rifle, he also spent time on remand for a variety of charges and in total served 20 years in prison. He also played a key role in the Maze Prison escape, the biggest prison break in British penal history.〔''An Phoblacht'', 18.12 2008. Pg. 8–9〕 ==Early life== The family was originally from the Marrowbone area, on the Oldpark Road in North Belfast. The family had to move when Bobby was very young due to Ulster loyalist attacks on the district, moving to Manor Street, an interface area also in North Belfast. Bobby’s father, also Bobby, was involved in the defence of the area in the 1970s.〔''An Phoblacht'', 18.12.08. Pg.8-9〕 Bobby was one of four children. He had two brothers, Seamus and Brian, and a sister Geraldine. Seamus escaped from Crumlin Road Jail in 1971. Seamus and Bobby senior had been arrested after a raid on their home which uncovered a rifle and a pistol. Bobby senior was later released but Seamus was charged. He escaped a couple of months later.〔 On his mother Peggy’s side of the family there was also a history of republicanism, but Bobby, according to ''An Phoblacht'', says "the dominant influences on" him "were the events that were happening around" him. These included the McGurk's Bar bombing in the New Lodge, some of those killed being people who knew his family, and also Bloody Sunday 1972. This then led to his attempts to join the IRA.〔 Storey left school when he was fifteen and went to work with his father selling fruit. At sixteen, he became a member of the IRA.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobby Storey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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