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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.
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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 ...
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...
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.
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The Dark contains selected writings and talks from former Irish Republican Army volunteer, political prisoner, and Hunger Striker, Brendan Hughes. Focusing on the time after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, this new collection amplifies a voice the political mainstream worked doggedly to silence. With incredible wit, Hughes’ words ...
Jun 1, 2015 · Brendan also discusses the Hunger Strikes at length as well as the "Peace Process" engaged in by his former comrade in the Republican Movement. Utterly compelling interview from one of the most...
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