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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’ 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.
Feb 15, 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’.
Feb 19, 2008 · In the 1970s, Brendan Hughes, who has died aged 59, shared a cubicle inside Cage 11 of the Long Kesh internment camp - the Maze prison - in Northern Ireland with Gerry Adams, now the...
Feb 18, 2008 · Former Provisional IRA leader and Maze prison hunger striker Brendan Hughes has died. Mr Hughes (59), nicknamed The Dark, was said never to have fully recovered from his 53-day hunger strike in...
Feb 20, 2008 · The funeral has taken place of Brendan Hughes, a former IRA commander and leader of the first Maze hunger strike in 1980. Known as "The Dark", Mr Hughes (59) died in...
Apr 30, 2021 · A poster shows 1980 hunger striker Brendan Hughes gaunt-faced and wrapped in a blanket
