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Tommy McKearney (b. 1952, Moy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is an Irish Republican, and former hunger striker and volunteer within the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Moy ( Irish: An Maigh) is a Village located  8 km (5 miles from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of Irish republicanism (Poblachtánachas is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a single independent Republic A hunger strike is a method of Non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political Protest, or to provoke feelings of Volunteer, often abbreviated Vol, is a term used by a number of Irish republican Paramilitary organisations to describe their members The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Óglaigh na hÉireann ( IRA; also referred to as the PIRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the [1][2]

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Background

McKearney was born into a family with a long republican tradition. Both his grandfathers had fought in the Irish Republican Army in the Irish War of Independence, his maternal grandfather Tom Murray was an Adjutant General in the North Roscommon Brigade. The Irish Republican Army ( IRA) (Óglaigh na hÉireann was a military organisation descended from the Irish Volunteers, established 25 November 1913 and who The Irish War of Independence (or Tan War, or Anglo-Irish War, Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) from January 1919 to July 1921 was a guerrilla An Adjutant General is a military chief administrative officer [1][3] McKearney has lost three of his brothers during the Troubles. Sean was killed by his own bomb in 1974, Pádraig was killed by the SAS in Loughgall in 1987, and Kevin, a non-paramilitary, was killed by Loyalists in 1992 while working in the family's butcher shop. Pádraig Oliver McKearney (December 1954 – May 1987 was a Marxist oriented Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA volunteer. The Special Air Service ( SAS) is a Special forces regiment within the British Army which has served as a model and inspiration for the special Loughgall (in Irish Loch Gall) is a small Village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Ulster loyalism is a militant unionist ideology held mostly by Protestants in Northern Ireland. [4]

IRA membership

On 9 August 1971, the day internment without trial was introduced, McKearney received his A-level results. Events 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, [5] McKearney had hoped to study at Queen's University Belfast and become a teacher but his results were not good enough to secure entry. Queen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [5] McKearney describes the introduction of internment as "the straw that broke the camel's back" and decided to join the IRA, becoming a member of the East Tyrone Brigade. The East Tyrone Brigade, Briogáid Thír Eoghain Thoir, of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA was one of the most active republican paramilitary [6][7] He became the brigade's Officer Commanding during the mid seventies. The Officer Commanding ( OC) is the commander of a sub-unit or minor unit (smaller than Battalion size in widespread military usage [6] On 19 October 1977 he was arrested and charged with the murder of Stanley Adams, a postman and part-time Ulster Defence Regiment member. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays The Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR) was an Infantry Regiment of the British Army formed as an anti-terrorist Militia in 1970 to replace McKearney was interrogated for seven days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and claims to have been ill-treated while in custody. The Prevention of Terrorism Acts were a series of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1989 that conferred emergency powers upon police forces McKearney later received a life sentence with a recommended minimum term of twenty years for the murder of Adams, after a statement which he never signed was accepted by the court on the word of a Royal Ulster Constabulary Inspector. The Royal Ulster Constabulary GC was the name of the Police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001 [8]

Hunger strike

McKearney was involved in the blanket and dirty protests, then took part in the 1980 hunger strike, along with fellow IRA members Brendan Hughes, Raymond McCartney, Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green, and Irish National Liberation Army member John Nixon. The blanket protest (Agóid na mBlancéid was part of a five year protest during The Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA and Irish National Liberation The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) was part of a five year protest during The Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA and The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Brendan Hughes (1948 – 16 February 2008) also known as "The Dark", who was mainly known as the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike Raymond McCartney ((Scottish Réamann McCartney. 1954 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is a Sinn Féin politician and a former Hunger striker The Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA; Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann in Irish is an Irish Republican, Left-wing paramilitary organisation [9] Prior to commencing the hunger strike, McKearney told his mother and father:

“ I'll put all my cards on the table. I'm going on hunger strike. If and when I die, I want to be brought back to Roscommon and be buried alongside my "Granda" . . . Don't let people try to influence you, your only friends will be the Republican Movement. If I die, never let the family be ashamed. If I die, I'll die in the knowledge that my life was for the cause and for the other boys here. If at my funeral the press say, "See how the IRA let your son die", just say, "My son died as an Irish soldier, not a British criminal". [10] ”

McKearney spent 53 days on hunger strike, from 27 October to 18 December, and according to a doctor had only a few hours left to live when the strike was called off. Events 312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the [11]

Release

McKearney was released from prison in 1993, having served 16 years of his sentence, and joined up with Republican Sinn Féin. Republican Sinn Féin ( RSF; Irish: Sinn Féin Poblachtach) is a Political party operating in Ireland. [4][12] In 2003 he appeared in the BBC documentary Life After Life with former Ulster Volunteer Force prisoner Billy Mitchell. The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF) is a Loyalist group in Northern Ireland. [13] He now works as a freelance journalist, edits the publication Fourthwrite, and is an organiser for the Independent Workers Union of Ireland. A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer The Independent Workers Union of Ireland is a Trade union in Ireland with its headquarters in Cork City. [14]

References

  1. ^ a b Taylor, Peter (1997). Peter Taylor born Scarborough, North Yorkshire is a British Journalist and documentary -maker who had covered for many years the political Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is an independent London -based publishing house known for literary Novels It was named Publisher of the Year in 1999 and 100-102. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2.  
  2. ^ Taylor, Peter (1989). Families At War. BBC, p. 160. ISBN 0-563-20787-6.  
  3. ^ English, Richard (2004). Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA. Pan Books, p. Pan Books is an Imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers 129. ISBN 0-330-49388-4.  
  4. ^ a b Fiona Foster (April, 1994). One of 'the unmanageables'. Living Marxism. Living Marxism was originally launched in 1988 as the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP Retrieved on 2007-09-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again
  5. ^ a b Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin, p. 100.
  6. ^ a b Lister, David (11 February 2003). Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Why the PIRA Will go On. Retrieved on 2007-02-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum
  7. ^ Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin, p. 101.
  8. ^ Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin, pp. 206-207.
  9. ^ Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA, p. 193.
  10. ^ Families At War, p. 160.
  11. ^ Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin, pp. 232-234.
  12. ^ O'Brien, Brendan (1999). This article is about the Irish journalist For articles about other people with the same name see Brendan O'Brien (disambiguation. Long War: The IRA & Sinn Féin. The O'Brien Press, p. 153. ISBN 0-86278-606-1.  
  13. ^ Mark Simpson (13 June 2003). Events 1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the Celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Life after the NI conflict. BBC News. Retrieved on 2007-02-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum
  14. ^ Tommy McKearney (5 February 2006). Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Sinn Féin: time to move on. The Sunday Business Post. The Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday Newspaper published by Post Publications Limited. Retrieved on 2007-02-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum

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