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Patsy O'Hara ( Irish: Peatsaí Ó hEadhra; 11 July 1957 – 21 May 1981 [1]) was an Irish republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). O'Hara was one of 22 Irish republicans (in the 20th century) who died on hunger-strike. [2]
Patsy O'Hara was a Derryman who joined the IRA and the hunger strike in the H-Blocks in 1981. He was the leader of the INLA prisoners and died on May 21st, 1981.
Aug 7, 2020 · Mrs O’Hara says the only real meal she saw during the last days of the hunger strike was the one that was brought every day to her son’s prison bed and left beside him – a meal that was still there after he had died. And she speaks of the anguish she felt as she watched her son die.
O'Hara, Patsy (Patrick) (1957–81), republican paramilitary and hunger-striker, was born 11 July 1957 in Bishop Street, Derry city, the third of four children of James O'Hara, publican and grocer, and his wife Peggy (née McCluskey).
May 21, 2021 · Patsy O'Hara, who was from the Bishop Street area of Derry and who had been sentenced to eight years in prison in 1980 for possession of a hand grenade, was 23 when he died.
May 21, 2016 · Twenty-three-year-old Patsy O’Hara from Derry city, was the former leader of the Irish National Liberation Army prisoners in the H-Blocks, and joined IRA Volunteer Raymond McCreesh on hunger strike on March 22nd, three weeks after Bobby Sands and one week after Francis Hughes.
This web page is a transcript of a speech given at the funeral of Patsy O'Hara, a Derry republican socialist who died on hunger strike in 1981. It praises his courage, political vision and anti-imperialist struggle, and condemns the British and Free State governments.
