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Encyclopedia > Patsy O'Hara

Patsy O'Hara (11 July 1957 - 21 May 1981) was an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army. He was born in Derry, joined INLA in 1975 and was convicted of possessing a hand grenade and sentenced to eight years in prison in January 1980. July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Irish Republicanism is the nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ... A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. ... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is an Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed on December 8, 1974. ... Derry or Londonderry (in Irish, Doire or Doire Cholm Chille), often called the Maiden City, is a city in Northern Ireland. ... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was formed on 8 December 1974 as the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (a political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), was formed the same day) by Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of...


He became involved in the blanket protest in the Maze Prison and joined the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike on 22 March, dying 61 days later. Her Majestys Prison (HMP) Maze (known colloqually as The Maze) is a disused prison sited at the former RAF station at Long Kesh (it is still called Long Kesh by many Irish Republicans) near Lisburn, nine miles outside Belfast, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... -1... March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ...


External Links

  • Biography from IRIS, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 1981 (Sinn Fein publication)
  • Biography from the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

 

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