For other people with the same name, see Frank Hughes (disambiguation).
Francis Hughes
Born
28 February 1956
Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Died
12 May 1981(1981-05-12) (aged 25)
HM Prison Maze
Organization
Provisional IRA
Known for
Hunger strike of 59 days, from 15 March 1981
Family
Thomas McElwee (cousin)
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes (28 February 1956 – 12 May 1981) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the British Army in which a British soldier was killed.[1] At his trial, he was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment; he died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. Hughes was one of 22 Irish republicans who died on hunger-strike between 1917 and 1981.[2]
Memorial to 22 Irish Hunger Strikers Deaths Glasnevin Cemetery
^Bowyer Bell, J. (1994). The Irish Troubles. Gill & Macmillan. pp. 251–252. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2.
^"Roll of Honor/Hunger 6 May 2021". 6 May 2014. at republicansinnfein.org
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