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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 a senior commander in the Irish Republican Army in the 1970s. His memoir, Up Like A Bird, recounts his involvement in the Mountjoy Jail escape, the Portlaoise Prison breakout, and other IRA operations.
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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 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’. But the soubriquet might serve equally well as an epitaph for Hughes himself, who died in poverty, shunned by his former comrades in the upper ...
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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.
THE DARK: SELECTED WRITINGS OF BRENDAN HUGHES. BUY NOW. FREE PDF. Edited and Introduced by. Róisín Dubh. The Dark contains selected writings and talks from former Irish Republican Army volunteer, political prisoner, and Hunger Striker, Brendan Hughes.
