Brendan McFarlane
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Brendan McFarlane was an Irish republican. Born into a Roman Catholic family, he was brought up in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. At 16, he left Belfast to train as a priest in a
Brendan McFarlane in 1986
Bayardo Bar attack
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The Bayardo Bar attack took place on 13 August 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, led by Brendan McFarlane, launched a bombing and shooting attack on a
Brendan McFarlane
…a priest in a north Wales seminary. He joined the Provisional IRA in 1969. In 1976, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his leading role in the Bayardo Bar attack which left 1 UVF volunteer and 4 civilians dead, injuring 50 others. McFarlane was brought up in a strongly religious Catholic family in the Irish…
Memorial to the victims of the Bayardo Bar attack