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Pat "Beag" McGeown (3 September 1956 – 1 October 1996 [1]) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike. [2] Background and IRA activity. McGeown was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 3 September 1956, and joined the IRA's youth wing Fianna Éireann in 1970.
12 de jun. de 2021 · He and others say that the 11th victim was former IRA man Pat McGeown, who was taken off hunger strike after 42 days and never fully regained his health afterwards. He died 15 years later.
7 de oct. de 1996 · Pat McGeown, 40, who barely survived a 12-day hunger strike as a prisoner of the British in 1981 and who later became a leader of the Irish Republican Army-allied Sinn Fein party.
20 de mar. de 2001 · Of the 13 hunger strikers who survived, one, Pat McGeown, became a Sinn Fein member of Belfast City Council but died in 1996. Lawrence McKeown earned a Friday, 31 May 2024
1 de abr. de 1998 · POLICE and republicans alike could scarcely believe it: Pat McGeown had got off. A republican legend within both the IRA and Sinn Fein, it seemed certain that this time he was going to be put...
McGeown, Patrick (1956–96), republican and Belfast city councillor, was born 1 September 1956 in west Belfast, second among five children (he had three younger brothers and an older sister) of Joseph McGeown and Clare McGeown (née Finnegan).
2 de oct. de 1996 · A LEADING Sinn Fein councillor, Mr Pat McGeown, was found dead in his home in Belfast last night. It is believed he died of natural causes. Mr McGeown, who was in his early 40, was a member of...
