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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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In August 1969 Hughes participated prominently in resistance to loyalist mob attacks (including the burning of Bombay Street on 15 August). He recalled his initial response as driven by collective communal defence; only later did he develop fully secular revolutionary socialist beliefs. As the split between the Official IRA and the nascent Provisio...
On returning to Long Kesh as a sentenced prisoner, Hughes was prominent among those prisoners, centred in Cage 11 (including Adams, now a sentenced prisoner after trying to escape; he was released in February 1977), who developed opposition to the Dublin-based IRA leadership and its supporters in the prison leadership. The dissidents believed the B...
After leaving jail in November 1986, Hughes returned to the IRA as a member of GHQ staff, and believed in the coordination of republican military and political strategy. As assistant director of intelligence, he oversaw a hunt for spies within the organisation, and by his own account oversaw massive electoral personation in Belfast in the 1987 West...
Hughes consistently wished to document his experiences to assist later generations' political development. In 1991 he was one of a number of republicans interviewed for the Australian documentary Behind the mask(dir. Frank Martin), and in his last years he regularly gave interviews to journalists and students of the Northern Ireland troubles in his...
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.
Oct 17, 2019 · The late Brendan Hughes was a senior IRA member in Belfast. Brendan Hughes said he had organised Bloody Friday, the day in 1972 on which the IRA detonated more than 19 car bombs in...
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 ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Tue Sep 21 2021 - 12:00. A former senior Provisional IRA member has questioned whether the organisation’s armed campaign was worth it. "I am not sure what we achieved. Was it worth one life never...
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The funeral took place on Tuesday of Belfast republican Brendan Hughes. A former leading republican activist and hunger striker, Hughes, known widely as ‘The Dark’, died on Saturday, 16 February after a short illness. He was 59.
Sep 21, 2021 · Brendan Hughes, a 74-year-old former commander and founding member of the Provisional IRA in Co Tyrone, said he didn’t regret taking part in the decades-long conflict to “defend...
