An American Werewolf in London
1981
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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 Belfast in the...
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’.
Maume, Patrick. 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. A great-grandfather was an IRA member in Co. Louth wounded in the war of independence; a great-uncle was ...
Brendan Hughes was the OC of the IRA prisoners in the H-Blocks during the No Wash protest which began in March 1978. He subsequently led the 1980 hunger strike, going without food for 53 days. Brendan Hughes was released from jail in 1986.
Sep 21, 2021 · Brendan Hughes, a former 'Officer Commanding' in east Tyrone, was one of the organisation's most trusted members in the 1970s. After helping to establish the Provos in Tyrone he went on to become...
Feb 18, 2008 · Mon 18 Feb 2008 at 01:30. Brendan Hughes was an IRA fighter who for much of his life pitted himself against the British presence in Northern Ireland but latterly became a bitter critic of the...
Feb 19, 2008 · Mon 18 Feb 2008 19.01 EST. 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...
