MICHAEL DEVINE JOINS HUNGER STRIKE
CAIN - Hunger Strike 1981 - Chronology
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Monday 22 June 1981
Michael Devine, then an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoner, joined the hunger strike.
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Irish Hunger Strike 1981 Website
Mickey Devine Joins Hunger Strike
22 June 1981
‘TWENTY-seven-year-old Micky Devine, from the Creggan in Derry city, was the third INLA Volunteer to join the H-Block hunger strike to the death.’
Read Mickey’s biography >>>here
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Fallen Comrades of the IRSM - Michael Devine
‘Michael James Devine was born on 26th May 1954 in Springtown, just outside of Derry city. He grew up in the Creggan area of Derry, where he was raised by his sister Margaret and her husband after both parents died unexpectedly when he was age 11.
Mickey was witness to the civil rights marches of the late 1960s in Derry in which civilians were often brutally attacked and the trauma of Bloody Sunday. In fact, Mickey himself was hospitalised twice because of police brutality. In the early 70s, Mickey joined the Labour Party and the Young Socialists. Then in 1975, Mickey helped form the INLA.’
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