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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 08, 6:16:41
Author: Republican Sinn Féin - Cork
Subject: In memory of Thomas McElwee 1957 - 1981

Thomas McElwee

'Sincere, easygoing and full of fun'

THE TENTH republican to join the hunger-strike was 23-year-old IRA Volunteer Thomas McElwee, from Bellaghy in South Derry. He had been imprisoned since December 1976, following a premature explosion in which he lost an eye.

Thomas died at 11.30am on Saturday, August 8th, 1981 after 62 days of slow, agonising hunger-strike with no company other than prison warders, colleagues of those who had brutalised, degraded and tortured him for three-and-a-half years.

See <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.rsfcork.com">http://www.rsfcork.com</a> for full tribute and other information.

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