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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of Patsy O'Hara (Peatsaí Ó hEadhra). Here is my tribute to Patsy and all the militants of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhCUYRZPac> This remembrance of Patsy was posted on the Republican Socialist forum maintained by the IRSP. He was a gallant comrade who is forever in our hearts. Patsy O'Hara was born on 11 July 1957 in Derry City in Ireland's occupied six counties. The catalysts for his political activism were witnessing the violence against civil rights marchers in the late 1960s and his presence at the Battle of the Bogside in August 1969. He joined the Official Irish Republican Army's youth wing in 1970 and Official Sinn Fein a year later. He was active with the Officials until 1973, when, in his own words, "it became apparent that they were firmly on the path to reformism and had abandoned the national question." The year after resigning from the Officials, he was interned in Long Kesh prison camp for six months. After his release in 1975, he joined the INLA and the Irish Republican Socialist Party. He resided in Dublin from 1977 to 1979, where he was active with the IRSP and served on its Ard-Chomhairle (National Executive). After returning to Derry in early 1979, he was arrested and charged with possession of a grenade. Sentenced to eight years in the H- Blocks of Long Kesh Prison, he participated in the blanket protests and became Officer Commanding of the INLA prisoners of war. He was the first INLA prisoner to go on hunger strike in 1981. 61 days later, at 11:29 pm, he became the first INLA prisoner to die on hunger strike. He was joined in death by a fellow hunger striker, the Provisional IRA's Raymond McCreesh. The two men joined the strike on the same day and died on the same day two months later. His funeral was the largest for any individual in the history of Derry, attended by thousands from all over Ireland. He died as he lived: a Republican Socialist. Remember him with honour and pride. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: UTF8 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wpwEAQECAAYFAk3YGnYACgkQz2PtBuiIezkXZwQAph8E3HX62BdBh4FPFWetKK1sMfWt 3dHn3DQxq52gxyD8Wa5qKct6oETj0BZYto05QzexbVvuTMJwreLbSkfb2fENJBRI1RSu PbOKYG/sIA+UuAn1eWxJT0qElB/fLVGs8+NOU0J1sj1yFFYRSjBwZeHgLFTD3Uh8j+wH uHfTPu4= =ziiU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
