Kieran Doherty

Kieran Doherty ( Irish: Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh; born October 16, 1955 in Belfast, † August 2, 1981 in the Maze Prison in Lisburn ) was a member of the IRA and hunger striker.

Kieran Doherty was an active member of Fianna Éireann and later, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) and grew up in Andersonstown in West Belfast.

As a result of its activities in the PIRA he was set 1973-1975 as part of the "policy of internment " in prison Long Kesh, the Maze Prison later.

Only a short time after his release he resumed his activities in the PIRA again. In 1976 he was arrested again and sentenced for the illegal possession of firearms and explosives, as well as the theft of a car, with which he tried to escape, to a prison term of 22 years.

During his detention, he joined immediately to the blanket protest and later the hunger strike around Bobby Sands. Just two months before his death, as a result of his ongoing 73 days hunger strike in 1981, he was elected for the District of Cavan / Monaghan as a deputy in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, but could be due to its mandate detention never compete.

• Briton
• Northern Irishman
• Person (Belfast )
• Teachta Dala
• Born in 1955
• Died in 1981
• Man
• Member of the IRA