About
Irish criminal and former IRA member who was arrested after a shootout with the Special Air Service in which a soldier was killed.
Before Fame
He dropped out of school at sixteen and worked as an apprentice painter.
Trivia
He died Irish hunger strike of 1981.
Family Life
He was the youngest boy in a family of ten siblings.
Associated With
He participated in the 1981 hunger strike at HM Prison Maze, an event dramatized by the 2008 film Hunger, directed by Steve R. McQueen.
