Remembering IRA Volunteer Brendan "The Dark" Hughes video done by Billy Nolan
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Remembering Brendan "The Dark" Hughes in song the warrior from West Belfast. Song by the Irish Brigade.
Nickname(s)"The Dark"
Born June 1948
Belfast, Ireland
Died 16 February 2008 (aged 59)
Belfast,Ireland
Allegiance Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Rank Officer Commanding
Battles/wars
August 1969 riots
Battle of the Lower Falls
Battle at Springmartin
Battle of Lenadoon
He was the Officer Commanding during the 1980 hunger strike.
On 27 October 1980,Brendan along with six other republican prisoners, including Tom McFeely, John Nixon, Sean McKenna, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger strike, 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 rejected any compromise, Brendan had promised one of the hunger strikers, Sean McKenna, that if McKenna slipped into a coma that Hughes 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.
Bobby Sands had taken over as leader of the republican prisoners in the prison after Hughes began his strike. On 1 March 1981, Sands began the second hunger strike,
I.R.A Volunteer Brendan "The Dark" Hughes A true Republican till the end
Nickname(s)"The Dark"
Born June 1948
Belfast, Ireland
Died 16 February 2008 (aged 59)
Belfast,Ireland
Allegiance Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Rank Officer Commanding
Battles/wars
August 1969 riots
Battle of the Lower Falls
Battle at Springmartin
Battle of Lenadoon
He was the Officer Commanding during the 1980 hunger strike.
On 27 October 1980,Brendan along with six other republican prisoners, including Tom McFeely, John Nixon, Sean McKenna, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger strike, 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 rejected any compromise, Brendan had promised one of the hunger strikers, Sean McKenna, that if McKenna slipped into a coma that Hughes 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.
Bobby Sands had taken over as leader of the republican prisoners in the prison after Hughes began his strike. On 1 March 1981, Sands began the second hunger strike,
I.R.A Volunteer Brendan "The Dark" Hughes A true Republican till the end