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The last time he was force-fed was the night before his death on Sunday 2 June. After a hunger strike that lasted 64 days, he died on Monday 3 June 1974, aged 24 years old. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republicans to die on hunger strike in the 20th century, which had started with the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes.
- 5 October 1949, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
- Provisional IRA
Jun 1, 2019 · They were brutally force-fed for 206 days. On 31 March 1974, Frank Stagg, Paul Holmes, Hugh Feeney and Michael Gaughan joined the strike. Twenty-three days into his strike, Michael was force-fed for the first time. The method of force-feeding hadn’t changed from the days when Thomas Ashe died due to the brutality of it in 1917.
Jun 4, 2009 · After Michael Gaughan, fellow Mayo man Frank Stagg and Paul Holmes joined the hunger strike on 31 March 1974, they were moved from Albany to the hospital wing of Parkhurst Prison on 10 April. It was there that they were force-fed by prison warders and doctors who were supposedly entrusted with the healthcare of prisoners.
Remembering the Past. • Michael Gaughan died on hunger strike in Parkhurst Prison, England, on 3 June 1974. Of the hundreds of republicans imprisoned at this time, the most vulnerable were those in English jails. Among them was a young man from Ballina, County Mayo. IN JUNE 1974, Ireland was in turmoil as the Troubles were in their fifth year.
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Jun 3, 2014 · In fact, Michael Gaughan’s last visit with his mother, three days before his death, took place in such circumstances. Because the prisoners were being force-fed, Michael Gaughan’s death, on Monday 3 June 1974, came as a shock. He died from pneumonia; the force-feeding tube having pierced his lung. He was 24 years of age.
Mar 11, 2024 · Michael Gaughan was born on 5 October 1949 in Ballina Co, Mayo and like many of his generation emigrated to England in search of employment. He subsequently converted to socialism when he became involved with Clann na hEireann (Official Sinn Féin) – an organisation openly declaring itself Marxist and republican – and eventually becoming ...
Jun 3, 2019 · After a hunger strike that lasts 64 days, Michael Gaughan dies on Monday, June 3, 1974, at the age of 24. The cause of Gaughan’s death is disputed. The British government states that he died of pneumonia. The Gaughan family state that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube.
