Patrick Quinn (IRA member)
Patrick "Paddy" Quinn (* 1962 in Belleeks , County Armagh , Northern Ireland ) is a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the South Armagh Brigade who participated in the Irish hunger strike in 1981 .
Quinn grew up in a Catholic family that consisted of four boys and four girls. After leaving school, he worked as a draftsman for a consulting engineer in Newry. Quinn was captured with Raymond McCreesh on June 25, 1976 after they carried out a failed attack on the British Army . As a result, Paddy Quinn was sentenced on March 2, 1977, and received 14 years in prison for attempting to kill a British soldier, five years for owning a rifle, and another five years for membership in the IRA.
Shortly after his arrival in the H-Block , a prison with 800 prison cells, he took part in the Blanket protest . For him, life in the H Block was a living funeral. Paddy Quinn became the 13th hunger striker to participate in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike on June 15, 1981. He survived the hunger strike as his family ordered medical intervention to save his life.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 41 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2003 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Remembering 1981: Two more join the Hunger Strike on An Phoblacht, June 15, 2006 . Retrieved December 16, 2010
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| SURNAME | Quinn, Patrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quinn, paddy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Northern Irish IRA member, hunger striker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belleeks , County Armagh , Northern Ireland |