Thomas McElwee – Died on 8 August 1981 after 62 days on hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh

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Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the tenth man to join the 1981 Hunger Strike. From Bellaghy in south Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 after a premature bomb explosion in which he lost an eye.

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