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8 de may. de 2011 · Brendan Hughes was adamant about his long history of not subscribing to a sectarian outlook. At the outbreak of political violence in 1969 The Dark referred to the mixed emotions he had as he marched as part of a nationalist mob towards a Protestant enclave in the Grosvenor Road.
21 de sept. de 2021 · Brendan Hughes, a former 'Officer Commanding' in east Tyrone, was one of the organisation's most trusted members in the 1970s. After helping to establish the Provos in Tyrone he went on to become ...
A former leading republican activist and hunger striker, Hughes, known widely as ‘The Dark’, died on Saturday, 16 February after a short illness. He was 59. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams was with Brendan Hughes and his family when he died and was among some 2,000 people who attended the funeral to Belfast’s Roselawn cemetery.
Brendan Hughes’ gritty memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the IRA in the early 1970s. Hughes reveals how a secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin’s Mountjoy Jail and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation’s armed resistance to British rule.
However, Brendan Hughes, the urban guerilla fighter, the prison escaper, the Hunger Striker, and the IRA Intelligence Officer who bugged the British Army's HQ and later evened-up Republican firepower with his introduction of the Armalite into IRA arsenals will never be forgotten. There are thousands more of his daring exploits.
Brendan Hughes (The Dark) exercises his right to free speech and gives his opinion on SF in the last years of his life.
Brendan Hughes ( Belfast, juny o 16 d'octubre de 1948 - 16 de febrer de 2008 ), també conegut com "The Dark" o "Darkie", va ser un líder republicà irlandès i officer commanding (OC) de la Brigada de Belfast de l' Exèrcit Republicà Irlandès Provisional (IRA o PIRA). Empresonat per ser un dels membres més actius de l'organització ...
