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Brendan Hughes (June 1948 – 16 February 2008), also known as "The Dark", and "Darkie" was a leading Irish republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike.
Brendan Hughes was a senior commander in the Irish Republican Army in the 1970s. His memoir, Up Like A Bird, recounts his involvement in the Mountjoy Jail escape, the Portlaoise Prison breakout, and other IRA operations.
15. Feb. 2024 · One of its most notable Republican critics was Brendan Hughes, the storied former leader of the Provisional IRA’s Belfast Brigade, who sardonically summed it up in three words: ‘Got fuck all’. But the soubriquet might serve equally well as an epitaph for Hughes himself, who died in poverty, shunned by his former comrades in the ...
THE DARK: SELECTED WRITINGS OF BRENDAN HUGHES. BUY NOW. FREE PDF. Edited and Introduced by. Róisín Dubh. The Dark contains selected writings and talks from former Irish Republican Army volunteer, political prisoner, and Hunger Striker, Brendan Hughes.
20. Feb. 2008 · Brendan Hughes, one of the founders of the Provisional IRA, died in 2008 after a long illness. He led the IRA in Belfast in the 1970s and the first hunger strike in 1980, and was a friend and comrade of Gerry Adams.
Brendan Hughes’ gritty memoir charts his meteoric rise through the ranks of the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s as it transformed into one of the most sophisticated guerrilla movements in...
19. Feb. 2008 · IRA commander in Belfast and leader of the H-Block 'dirty protests' of the 1970s. In the 1970s, Brendan Hughes, who has died aged 59, shared a cubicle inside Cage 11 of the Long Kesh internment...
