Brendan Bik McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was best known in republican circles as the officer commanding in the H-Blocks during the 1981 hunger strikes and for his role in the Maze prison ...
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Sinn Féin pays tribute to senior member and former IRA Maze escapee Brendan McFarlane following his deathHe was described as the PIRA’s commanding officer in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Hunger Strike, and took part in the escape from the prison in 1985, alongside fellow IRA prisoner Gerry Kelly ...
Mr McFarlane was sent to Maze Prison after being convicted of a deadly bomb attack on a pub in the Protestant Shankill Road area in 1975. He was the officer in command of the H-Block prisoners ...
He was sent to Maze Prison after being convicted of a deadly bomb attack on a pub in the Protestant Shankill Road area in 1975. McFarlane was the officer in command of the H-Block prisoners during ...
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