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Raymond McCreesh (Irish: Réamonn Mac Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post.
Raymond McCreesh was a quiet and dedicated IRA Volunteer from South Armagh who died on hunger strike in 1981. Learn about his life, family, resistance and legacy on this web page.
South Armagh IRA member Raymond McCreesh, who died on hunger strike in 1981, was named as one of those linked to an Armalite rifle used in the Kingsmill shootings.
Jan 15, 2018 · The family of the late IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh have rejected suggestions he was involved in the 1976 Kingsmill massacre. In 2011 the PSNI Historical Enquiries Team said the...
The deaths of Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls.
May 23, 2016 · Last Saturday night, after Mass at the Church of St Malachy in Camlough, a commemoration in memory of IRA Volunteer Raymond McCreesh, who died on hunger strike thirty-five years ago, was attended by a large number of relatives, comrades, friends and neighbours in the adjacent graveyard.
Aug 3, 2023 · Coverage of Raymond McCreesh's death after participating in the 1981 Republican-organized prison hunger strike at the HM Prison Maze in Belfast, Northern Ire...
