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Michael Devine: Died on Hunger Strike, 20 Aug 81

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday August 21, 2002 12:30author by I.R.S.M. - Pairti Poblachtach Soisialach na h-Eireann Report this post to the editors

Mickey was 60 days on hunger strike; he was the third INLA Volunteer to join the hunger strike and died at 7:50am on 20th August 1981.

Michael James Devine was born on 26th May 1954 in Springtown, just outside of Derry city. He grew up in the Creggan area of Derry, where he was raised by his sister Margaret and her husband after both parents died unexpectedly
when he was age 11.

Mickey was witness to the civil rights marches of the late 1960s in Derry in which civilians were often brutally attacked and the trauma of Bloody
Sunday. In fact, Mickey himself was hospitalised twice because of police brutality. In the early 70s, Mickey joined the Labour Party and the Young>Socialists. Then in 1975, Mickey helped form the INLA.

In 1976 he was arrested, and sentenced in 1977 to 12 years after an arms raid in County Donegal; he immediately joined the blanket protest. While on
hunger strike an appeal to Irish workers he drafted was smuggled out of Long Kesh and it was this letter to Irish workers that was read at factory gates throughout Ireland.

Mickey was 60 days on hunger strike; he was the third INLA Volunteer to join the hunger strike and died at 7:50am on 20th August 1981.

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author by Despublication date Wed Aug 21, 2002 18:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I have never believed that the national question in our country could be solved by a war; it is simply not possible to bomb a million people who consider themselves British into a united Ireland. Having said that, I also believe that the people who went on hunger strike were “special category” or political prisoners who had a political motivation and were not criminals.

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