Context_1 : Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish actor. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic "300" (2007) as a Spartan warrior; his earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama "Hex" (2004–05). He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in "Hunger" (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include in the independent film "Fish Tank" (2009), as a Royal Marines lieutenant in "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of "Jane Eyre", as Carl Jung in "A Dangerous Method" (2011), as the sentient android David 8 in "Prometheus" (2012) and its sequel, "" (2017), and in the musical comedy-drama "Frank" (2014) as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom. Context_2 : Michael James "Mickey" Devine (26 May 1954–20 August 1981) was an Irish founding member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). He died in prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Context_3 : Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor who made his screen debut in the 2001 war drama miniseries "Band of Brothers" as Sgt. Burton "Pat" Christenson. Fassbender followed this with a number of television roles including a German motorcycle courier in the drama "Hearts and Bones" (2001), Guy Fawkes in the miniseries "Gunpowder, Treason & Plot" (2004), Lt. Harry Colebourn in the film "A Bear Named Winnie" (2004), and Azazeal in the series "Hex" (2004–05). He made his film debut playing a Spartan soldier in Zack Snyder's "300" (2007). The following year Fassbender portrayed Irish republican Bobby Sands during the events of the 1981 Irish hunger strike in Steve McQueen's historical drama "Hunger". His performance garnered him the Best Actor award at the British Independent Film Awards, and the Irish Film and Television Awards. Context_4 : Francis Hughes (28 February 1956 – 12 May 1981) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the Special Air Service (SAS) in which an SAS soldier was killed. At his trial, he was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment; he died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. Context_5 : Raymond McCreesh (Irish: "Réamonn Mac Raois" , 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was a volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post. McCreesh was one of the ten Irish republicans who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze Prison. Context_6 : Roll of Honour is an Irish Republican song, written by Gerry O'Glacain, that commemorates the 10 IRA and INLA hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in Northern Ireland. The names each of the men are contained in the lyrics of the song in the order that they died: Bobby Sands, (Francis) Hughes, Ray McCreesh, (Patsy) O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee and Michael Devine. The song describes the 10 as "Ireland’s bravest men" who were "Hungering for justice" and "For their rights as Irish soldiers and to free their native land". The song ends with the call to "Fight on and make our homeland a nation once again". Context_7 : Steven Rodney "Steve" McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist. For his 2013 film, "12 Years a Slave", a historical drama adaptation of an 1853 slave narrative memoir, he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, as a producer, and he also received the award for Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle. McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. McQueen is known for his collaborations with actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in all three of McQueen's feature films as of 2014. McQueen's other feature films are "Hunger" (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, and "Shame" (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction. Context_8 : Hunger is a 2008 British-Irish historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and McQueen. Context_9 : H3 is a film released in 2001 about the 1981 Irish hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, the events leading up to it, and subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of War status. It was directed by Les Blair and was written by Brian Campbell and Laurence McKeown; McKeown was a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who participated in the hunger strike. Context_10 : The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out", the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. In 1980, seven prisoners participated in the first hunger strike, which ended after 53 days. fact_1 :  He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in "Hunger" (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. fact_2 : Hunger is a 2008 British-Irish historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Answer: Bobby Sands
Output: What was the name of the character played by Michael Fassbender in a film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike directed by Steve McQueen?