Michael Devine (hunger striker)

Mickey Devine ( born May 26, 1954 as Michael Devine in Derry, † August 20 1981 in the " Maze Prison" at Lisburn ) was a member of the INLA and hunger striker.

Mickey Devine was born in Springtown Camp just outside the city of Derry in County Londonderry. His parents already died very early, after his older sister Margaret and her husband took over the further education.

During the protests by the civil rights movement in the 1960s, he was like many of his compatriots victims of police arbitrariness and brutality and had several times medical treatment.

In the early 1970s he joined the Irish Labour Party and the Young Socialists. This was followed by a series of activities in various paramilitary organizations, which resulted in the INLA Assisted in the mid-1970s.

1976 Mickey Devine was arrested with Desmond Walmsley and John Cassidy after a raid on the procurement of arms in County Donegal and sentenced to twelve years in prison.

On June 21, 1981, he joined the hunger strike while in detention around Bobby Sands, as a result he died after 60 days.

• Briton
• Northern Irishman
• Born in 1954
• Died in 1981
• Man
• Person in the Northern Ireland conflict