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Brendan Hughes (June 1948 – 16 February 2008), also known as "The Dark", and "Darkie" was a leading Irish republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike.
Brendan Hughes was an IRA commander who planned and executed daring escapes and raids in the 1970s. His book reveals the inside story of his rise and fall in the Irish Republican movement.
Feb 15, 2024 · One of its most notable Republican critics was Brendan Hughes, the storied former leader of the Provisional IRA’s Belfast Brigade, who sardonically summed it up in three words: ‘Got fuck all’.
A biography of Brendan Hughes, a prominent IRA activist in Belfast from 1969 to 1974, who organised and oversaw many attacks on British forces and intelligence. He was arrested, imprisoned, escaped, and later became a Sinn Féin member.
Feb 20, 2008 · Brendan Hughes, one of the founders of the Provisional IRA, died in 2008 after a long illness. He led the IRA in Belfast in the 1970s and the first hunger strike in 1980, and was a friend and comrade of Gerry Adams.
Feb 19, 2008 · IRA commander in Belfast and leader of the H-Block 'dirty protests' of the 1970s. In the 1970s, Brendan Hughes, who has died aged 59, shared a cubicle inside Cage 11 of...
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Feb 18, 2008 · Former Provisional IRA leader and Maze prison hunger striker Brendan Hughes has died. Mr Hughes (59), nicknamed The Dark, was said never to have fully recovered from his 53-day hunger strike in...
