Paddy Quinn (Irish republican)

Patrick Quinn (born 1962 in Belleek, County Armagh, Northern Ireland ) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA) in the South Armagh Brigade, took part in the Irish hunger strike in 1981.

Quinn grew up in a Catholic family, which consisted of four boys and four girls. After leaving school, he worked as a draftsman in an advisory engineer working in Newry. Was Captured Quinn on June 25, 1976, Raymond McCreesh, after they had carried out an unsuccessful attack on the British Army. Then Paddy Quinn was sentenced on March 2, 1977 and received 14 years in prison for trying to kill a British soldier, and five years for possession of a rifle and another five years for membership of the IRA.

Shortly after his arrival in the H-Block, a prison with 800 prison cells, he participated in the blanket protest. To him, life in H-Block was a living funeral. Paddy Quinn participated as 13 hunger strikers from the June 15, 1981 at the Irish hunger strike of 1981. He survived the hunger strike since his family ordered a medical intervention to save his life.