Co Derry & Co Antrim Republican History

The republican history of County Derry and adjoining County Antrim.

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Enda O'Kane, Swatragh centre of back row

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South Derry republicans picture in H Blocks, 1992. From top left clockwise:
Peadar Lagan, Maghera
Martin Molloy, Maghera
Rory Craig, Bellaghy,
Lawrence O'Neill, Bellaghy
Harry McCann, Randalstown

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@mlaverty2014 Indeed he was!

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Cage 23, Long Kesh internees ...1970s
Back: L-R
Micky O'Neill, Kilrea,
Eugene McErlean, Ballymaguigan, Sean O'Neill, Kilrea,
Front: Lawrence Mulholland, Bellaghy,
Tommy Donaghy, Kilrea

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@Irelandherown 👍👍

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@Irelandherown No. If it's the same Liam Mulholland, he was a Belfast man.

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Tommy Donaghy shot dead by UDA after his release from a subsequent term of imprisonment in the H Blocks.

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@Sinabhfuil Sorry, I wouldn't know as much about Derry City. O'Doherty would be a fairly common name in those parts.

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Tommy Donaghy, Kilrea assasinated August, 1991, by loyalists/Crown Forces.

Interned, Long Kesh until 1975. Captured on active service, 1977, served 11 further years in H Blocks including Blanket protest. Released 1988.

Shot dead at his workplace, Portna fishery, River Bann.

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Francie Wilson, The Loup, the first South Derry blanket man to be released from the H Blocks of Long Kesh.

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@DanielCollins85 Thanks, Daniel. Great story! I've saw this photo before. Are you related to a well-known political commentator? 🙂

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Tom Larkin, Ballinderry, pictured Ballykinlar, 1921. Tom helped reorganise the IRB in S Derry prior to 1916. In C'island, 1916! Interned Argenta until 1924 enduring hunger strike. Brother Sean executed in Civil War. Health suffered from ordeals and died relatively young.

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@DrNightdub Yes.

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@marty_galls We have enough border issues in this country without you starting another, Marty! 😉

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@Stephenmccrack4 @charles12577567 Limavady men notoriously hard to get money off! 😉😉

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Watty Graham, United Irishman... assembled 5000 South Derry men in Maghera, 7th June, 1798 for the rising. After the rising failed, tried to make his way to the USA, spending his last night in Slaughtneil, in the McKenna home, Tirkane. Hanged & beheaded after capture.

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@CarolineH123 It was in the grounds of the Rectory opposite the current St Lurach's church. It fell during a storm in the early decades of the last century.

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In the late 19th century an old women related to a local historian how, as a young child she saw the head of Watty Graham placed upon a spike in Maghera. She recalled his long blonde hair blowing in the wind.

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The tree upon which Watty was hanged.