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Dixie Elliot ✍ On this day, 3rd June 1974, sixty-four days into his hunger strike, the prison authorities announced that Michael Gaughan had died. 

They later explained that he died from pneumonia, as a result of the force-feeding tube which pierced his lung and food lodging in his lung.

He was 24-years-old.

The tricolour that draped Michael Gaughan’s coffin was used for Terence MacSwiney’s funeral, contributed by life-long Communist Party member Muriel MacSwiney, widow of Terence MacSwiney.

Thomas Clarke is in my thoughts, and MacSwiney, Stagg, Gaughan, Thomas Ashe, McCaughey. Dear God, we have so many that another one to those knaves means nothing, or so they say, for some day they'll pay - From the Diary of Bobby Sands.


Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.
Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie

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Dixie Elliot ✍ On this day, 3rd June 1974, sixty-four days into his hunger strike, the prison authorities announced that Michael Gaughan had died. 

They later explained that he died from pneumonia, as a result of the force-feeding tube which pierced his lung and food lodging in his lung.

He was 24-years-old.

The tricolour that draped Michael Gaughan’s coffin was used for Terence MacSwiney’s funeral, contributed by life-long Communist Party member Muriel MacSwiney, widow of Terence MacSwiney.

Thomas Clarke is in my thoughts, and MacSwiney, Stagg, Gaughan, Thomas Ashe, McCaughey. Dear God, we have so many that another one to those knaves means nothing, or so they say, for some day they'll pay - From the Diary of Bobby Sands.


Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.
Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie
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2 comments:

  1. Barry Gilheany10:04 PM, June 04, 2025

    Force feeding was barbaric.

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  2. Henry JoY1:14 AM, June 05, 2025

    Remembering Vol. Tony D'Arcy, Headford, Co. Galway too. Who died on hunger strike in April 1940 (Tony & Sean McNeela died 3 days apart.)
    What's most poignant about their deaths was the short sentences they were serving. D'Arcy was serving a 3 months sentence for refusing to give his name to a branch man!

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