Paddy Quinn (Irish republican)

Patrick Quinn (born 1952) was a volunteer with the 1st Battalion, South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.[1]

For the baseball player, see Paddy Quinn (baseball).

Paramilitary activity

On 2 March 1977, Quinn and Raymond McCreesh were convicted and sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempted murder, possession of a rifle and ammunition and a further five years for IRA membership.[2][3]

Quinn joined the hunger strike on 15 June 1981. When he was close to death after 47 days his mother asked for medical help to save his life. Paddy Quinn and his mother both described what happened in interviews for a BBC documentary on the hunger strikes in 1993. He was the first hunger striker whose family intervened.[4][5][6][7][8]

References
  1. Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 41 Archived 2003-03-29 at archive.today
  2. Two Lives and Two Deaths for Ireland Archived 2003-03-10 at archive.today
  3. Guardian
  4. 1981 Hunger Strike Survivors Archived 2006-12-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. The legacy of the hunger strikes Archived 2007-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  6. MESSAGES FROM A HUNGER STRIKE
  7. Timewatch - Hunger Strike: A Hidden History (Otmoor Productions/BBC, 1993.)
  8. Hunger Strike: A Hidden History film
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