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Brendan "The Dark" Hughes (b. Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.[1] WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ...
Motto: (Latin for Who will separate us?)[1] Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (de facto), Ulster Scots, Irish3, Northern Ireland Sign Language, Irish Sign Language Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister of...
Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (Pronounced fee-na fall.) (English: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ...
The Officer Commanding (OC) is the commander of a sub-unit or minor unit (smaller than battalion size) in British and Commonwealth military usage. ...
A Republican mural in Belfast depicting the hunger strikes of 1981. ...
Background
Hughes was born into a republican family from the Lower Falls Road area of Belfast. He was a cousin of Charles Hughes who was the OC of D Company in the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade during the Falls Curfew and was shot and killed by the Official Irish Republican Army in March 1971.[2] The term Official IRA relates to one of the two elements of the Irish Republican Army - the other being the Provisional IRA - that emerged from the ideological split in the Irish Republican movement in 1969-70. ...
Republican activity Hughes joined the IRA in 1969 and was "on the run" in Belfast by 1970. From 1970-1972, Hughes was involved in a number of attacks on British soldiers and bank robberies in order to raise funds for the republican movement.[3] On 19 July 1973 Hughes was arrested on the Falls Road along with Gerry Adams and Tom Cahill, and was sent to Long Kesh.[1] Hughes soon escaped inside a rolled up mattress in the back of a dustcart, and fled across the border to Dublin. He returned to Belfast after assuming a new identity, becoming a travelling toy salesman named Arthur McAllister. For five months Hughes lived in Myrtlefield Park near Malone Road, and was believed to be the new leader of the IRA in Belfast. On 10 May 1974 Hughes was arrested following a tip-off, and the house was found to contain a submachine gun, four rifles, two pistols and several thousand rounds of ammunition. Hughes was subsequently sentenced to fifteen years in prison.[4] July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
The Falls Road (Bóthar na bhFál in Irish, meaning road of the hedgerows) is the main road through West Belfast in Northern Ireland; from Divis Street and Castle Place in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. ...
Gerard Adams (Irish Gearóid Mac Ãdhaimh[1]; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. ...
The personnel gate to the main guard office. ...
A garbage truck, known as a dustcart or dustbin wagon in the United Kingdom, is a truck specially designed to haul waste to landfills and other recycling / disposal facilities. ...
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...
The Malone Road is a main arterial road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...
May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
The MP5, a famous submachine gun, sees widespread use amongst those that can afford it. ...
Hunger strike Hughes was the leader of the 1980 hunger strike. Against the wishes of the IRA Army Council, on 27 October 1980, Hughes along with six other republican prisoners, including John Nixon, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger strike.-1...
The IRA Army Council is the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, more commonly known as the IRA, a paramilitary group dedicated to the removal of the British presence in Ireland. ...
During the second month of the hunger strike the British Government led by Margaret Thatcher, sent an intermediary to inform Hughes of a possible compromise, despite previously having publicly rejecting any compromise. The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...
Hughes had promised one of the hunger strikers, Sean McKenna, that if he slipped into a coma that he would end the hunger strike and as McKenna was on the verge of death, Hughes found himself in a dilemma. Hughes assumed that the compromise was in good faith and ended the hunger strike after 53 days. However, when the document arrived at the prison, there was disappointment at the final position of the British Government.[5][6]
Bobby Sands took over as leader of the republican prisoners in the Maze during this hunger strike.[7] Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: [1][2]), commonly known as Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981), was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) member who died on hunger strike whilst in prison for the possession of firearms. ...
Criticism of Sinn Fein leadership Hughes has been critical of the Sinn Fein leadership for allowing building firms in west Belfast to pay low wages to former prisoners and that the republican leadership had sold out on their ideals in order to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.[8][9] Sinn Féin (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone) is an Irish political party. ...
References - ^ a b Taylor, Peter (1997). Provos The IRA & Sinn Fein. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 156-157. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2.
- ^ Ibid., pp. 58, 79.
- ^ Unknown.“Brendan Hughes” Socialist Review 2006-09-01. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
- ^ Taylor, Peter (1997). Provos The IRA & Sinn Fein. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 160-162. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2.
- ^ Hunger Strikes and Death of Bobby Sands BBC Website. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
- ^ Brendan Hughes. “Risking the Lives of Volunteers is Not the IRA Way” Irish News 2006-07-13. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
- ^ John Cunningham (6 May 1981). How the IRA manufactured a new martyr. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
- ^ David Sharrock (4 March 2000). Ex-IRA leader attacks Adams. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
- ^ Malachi O'Doherty (6 February 2001). Hungry for a new Republican agenda. Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
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