Post by Sinn Féin Poblachtach - Cork on Aug 8, 2006 11:12:49 GMT
Thomas McElwee
'Sincere, easygoing and full of fun'
THE TENTH republican to join the hunger-strike was 23-year-old IRA Volunteer Thomas McElwee, from Bellaghy in South Derry. He had been imprisoned since December 1976, following a premature explosion in which he lost an eye.
Thomas died at 11.30am on Saturday, August 8th, 1981 after 62 days of slow, agonising hunger-strike with no company other than prison warders, colleagues of those who had brutalised, degraded and tortured him for three-and-a-half years.
See www.rsfcork.com for full tribute and other information.
'Sincere, easygoing and full of fun'
THE TENTH republican to join the hunger-strike was 23-year-old IRA Volunteer Thomas McElwee, from Bellaghy in South Derry. He had been imprisoned since December 1976, following a premature explosion in which he lost an eye.
Thomas died at 11.30am on Saturday, August 8th, 1981 after 62 days of slow, agonising hunger-strike with no company other than prison warders, colleagues of those who had brutalised, degraded and tortured him for three-and-a-half years.
See www.rsfcork.com for full tribute and other information.