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6 days ago · At just seventeen and a half years of age, Paul was sentenced to 14 years in prison. After being transferred back to Long Kesh, Paul said he insisted he was ‘a political prisoner, not a criminal’ and refused to wear the prison uniform.
Dec 19, 2017 · Paul takes up the story with after being arrested in South Derry in 1976 how he ended up on the Blanket Protest. Originally Paul had Political Status but because he refused to recognise the courts and was sentenced after the 1st March, he lost it.
Aug 6, 2021 · This morning I received the bad news that my old friend and comrade, Paul McGlinchey, has died. Paul was diagnosed with cancer about 4 years ago and up until recent months Gerry 'Blute' McDonnell and I would visit him in his home on the shores of Loch Beag close to Moneyglass.
Sep 17, 2017 · Paul McGlinchey was not the first republican on the H Block protest in 1976 - that misfortune made an icon out of the late Kieran Nugent - but he arrived early enough to make him the longest protesting prisoner. McGlinchey the Betta and the Omega of the blanket protest.
Paul was jailed for 14 years [278] after attempting to assassinate the Reverend Overend in 1976—whom the INLA would later try and blow up on McGlinchey's orders; he later stood against Sinn Féin in the 2007 Assembly election. [279]
Paul takes up the story with after being arrested in South Derry in 1976 how he ended up on the Blanket Protest. Originally Paul had Political Status but because he refused to recognise the courts and was sentenced after the 1st March, he lost it.
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May 16, 2017 · One of the best known 1981 hunger strikers ignored an order from the IRA not to take part in the fast, a new book has claimed. The claim has been made by former IRA prisoner Paul McGlinchey in...
