Kieran Doherty
Kieran Doherty ( Irish : Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh ; born October 16, 1955 in Belfast , † August 2, 1981 in Maze Prison near Lisburn ) was a member of the IRA and hunger striker .
Kieran Doherty was an active member of the Fianna Éireann and later the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and grew up in Andersonstown in West Belfast.
As a result of his activities in the PIRA, he was imprisoned between 1973 and 1975 as part of the "policy of internment" in Long Kesh Prison, later known as Maze Prison.
He resumed his PIRA activities only a short time after his release. In 1976 he was arrested again and sentenced to 22 years in prison for illegally possessing firearms and explosives and stealing a car in which he attempted to escape.
During his detention, he immediately joined the Blanket protest and later the hunger strike around Bobby Sands . Barely two months before his death, as a result of his 73-day hunger strike in 1981 , he was elected as a member of the Dáil Éireann , the lower house of the Irish Parliament , for the Cavan / Monaghan district, but was never able to take up his mandate due to his imprisonment.
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| SURNAME | Doherty, Kieran |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doherty, Ciaran; Ó Dochartaigh, Ciaran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Northern Irish resistance fighter and hunger striker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1981 |
| Place of death | Maze Prison at Lisburn |