Raymond McCreesh

Raymond Peter McCreesh (Irish Réamann Mac Raois, born February 25, 1957 in Camlough, † May 21 1981 in the Maze Prison ) was a member of the IRA and hunger striker.

Raymond McCreesh grew up the seventh of eight children in Camlough in the Northern Ireland County Armagh.

Even as a teenager, he took an active part in the struggle against the British occupiers and was at the age of 16 years a member of Fianna Éireann, a youth wing of the Irish Republican movement.

After he joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army, he was arrested in 1976 after a failed attack on British troops and sentenced to a prison term of 14 years.

On March 22, 1981, he joined, as well as Patsy O'Hara, in the hunger strike of 1981, as a result he died 61 days later.

  • Briton
  • Northern Irishman
  • Born in 1957
  • Died in 1981
  • Man
  • Member of the IRA
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