Patsy O'Hara

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Patsy O'Hara ( Irish Peatsaí Ó hEadhra ; born July 11, 1957 in Derry , Northern Ireland , † May 21, 1981 in Maze Prison near Lisburn ) was a member of the INLA and a hunger striker .

In 1975, around three years after the events on Bloody Sunday in his hometown, O'Hara became a member of the INLA . In January 1980, after having been detained several times for his activities in the INLA, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for possession of a hand grenade. He served them, like Bobby Sands , in Maze Prison .

Here he and numerous other prisoners went on a hunger strike from 1981 on March 22, 1981 , as a result of which he died 61 days later.

The RAF named the command that murdered MTU boss Ernst Zimmermann in 1985 after O'Hara. The Bielefeld post-hardcore band Patsy O'Hara was also named after him .

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SURNAME O'Hara, Patsy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish resistance fighter and hunger striker
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Derry
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1981
Place of death Maze Prison at Lisburn