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Francis Joseph Sean Hughes (28 February 1956 – 12 May 1981) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the British Army in which a British soldier was killed. [1]
- Hunger strike of 59 days, from 15 March 1981
- Thomas McElwee (cousin)
- 12 May 1981 (aged 25), HM Prison Maze
Francis Hughes è stato un attivista e rivoluzionario irlandese, militante della Brigata South Derry della Provisional IRA morto a Long Kesh nel carcere di Maze durante il secondo sciopero della fame dei detenuti repubblicani.
12 mag 2011 · The second republican to join the H-Block hunger-strike for political status—a fortnight after Bobby Sands—was twenty-five-year-old Francis Hughes, from Bellaghy in South Derry: a determined, committed and totally fearless IRA Volunteer who organised a spectacularly successful series of military operations before his capture, and ...
Volunteer Francis Hughes died after 59 days on hunger strike 40 years ago on the 12th May 1981 in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. This video featuring Gerry Adams and Oliver Hughes along with...
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Francis Hughes’s death was the impetus for an increased use of lethal plastic bullets and injuries received from them rose dramatically across the Six Counties after 12 May.
A second IRA hunger striker, 25-year-old Francis Hughes, has starved to death in the Maze Prison near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His death comes a week after the death of Bobby...
13 mag 2024 · Francis Hughes, well known opera singer of his day, was buried on 21 March 1744 in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey but has no marker. He sang a role in the first all-sung English opera and worked at Drury Lane and other venues.
