Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara – Died on hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh, 21 May 1981
over 3 years in anphoblacht
THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day and were born within a fortnight of each other in February 1957 – marked a critical escalation in the prison struggle as well as the struggle outside the prisons walls.
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