Joe McDonnell (hunger striker)

Joe McDonnell (Irish Seosamh Mac Dónaill, born 14 September 1951 in Belfast, † 8 July 1981 in the Maze Prison ) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and hunger striker.

Joe McDonnell was born the fifth of ten children ( other sources speak of eight children ) in West Belfast. In 1970 he married his wife Goretti; out of wedlock children Bernadette and Joseph were born.

1972 McDonnell was several months in prison Maze Prison fixed as part of the "policy of internment ", after which he joined after his release, the Provisional Irish Republican Army immediately. In October 1976, it came to a stop in Belfast to a shootout with forces of the British Army and the RUC, as a result Joe McDonnell along with Bobby Sands, Seamas Finucane and Seán Lavery was arrested. In September 1977, Joe McDonnell received, as well as his co-defendant, a 14- year sentence for illegal possession of weapons, which in Prison Maze Prison had to be served again. 1981 joined Joe McDonnell, as well as numerous other fellow prisoners, the hunger strikers around Bobby Sands in to fight for their status as political prisoners.

On July 8, 1981 Joe McDonnell died, 61 days after the beginning of his hunger strike in 1981.

• Person ( Irish history )
• Briton
• Northern Irishman
• Person (Belfast )
• Born in 1951
• Died in 1981
• Man
• Member of the IRA