Francis Hughes
(1956-1981)
Provisional IRA volunteer and hunger striker
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Francis Hughes (28 February 1956 – 12 May 1981) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the Special Air Service (SAS) in which an SAS soldier was killed. At his trial he was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment; he died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
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Proinsias Ó hAodha 28 February 1956 Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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12 May 1981 (aged 25) H block of Maze prison (aka Long Kesh), County Down, Northern Ireland
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