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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’ gritty memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the IRA in the early 1970s. Hughes reveals how a secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin’s Mountjoy Jail and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation’s armed resistance to British rule.
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’.
Hughes, Brendan (1948–2008), IRA activist, was born at Blackwater Street off the Grosvenor Road in west Belfast in June 1948, the second of six children (five boys and one girl) of Kevin Barry Hughes, a builders' labourer.
Feb 20, 2008 · Brendan Hughes, 59, died in hospital on February 16 after a lengthy illness. Hughes, nicknamed the "Dark," had become a Republican legend while leading the Provisional IRA in...
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...
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...
