Raymond Peter McCreesh (25 February 1957 - 21 May 1981) was an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Provisional IRA. He was born in Camlough in South Armagh and was sentenced in March 1977 and sent to the Maze Prison. He joined the blanket protest and took part in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, dying 61 days later. February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 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 Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... Camlough is a small village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near Bessbrook and the slopes of the Ring of Gullion. ... 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...

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• Biography from IRIS, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 1981 (Sinn Fein publication)