Raymond McCreesh (Irish: Réamonn Mac Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post. McCreesh was one of the ten Irish republicans who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
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Raymond Peter McCreesh 25 February 1957 St. Malachy's Park, Camlough, County Armagh
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21 May 1981 (aged 24) H block of Maze prison (aka Long Kesh), County Down, Northern Ireland
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