Raymond McCreesh
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Raymond McCreesh was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a Britis
Memorial to 22 Irish Hunger Strikers Deaths Glasnevin Cemetery
McCreesh's gravestone
Francis Hughes
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Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his ar
Raymond McCreesh
…strike. He died on 21 May, after 61 days on hunger strike. One of the soldiers who captured McCreesh, Lance Corporal David Jones, was later killed by Francis Hughes, who died during the same hunger strike. Another Irish Republican Volunteer Patsy O'Hara died on the same day (21 May 1981) as McCreesh while on hunger…
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Gravestone erected to Thomas McElwee and Francis Hughes.