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Eamonn Boyce (8 August 1925 – 5 February 2020) was an Irish volunteer of the Irish Republican Army. He was considered among the leading young activists in the organisation in the early 1950s along with Charlie Murphy, Robert Russell, Tom Mitchell, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Joe Christle. He and Murphy were responsible for a successful raid on a British military barracks in Armagh in the summer of 1954. Boyce was later captured leading an IRA arms raid on the military barracks in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 17 October 1954, for which he was sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude in Belfast Gaol. Despite the raid's failure, the resulting publicity surrounding Boyce's trial brought considerable recruits and funding for the organisation. Forty years following his release, Boyce's prison diaries were published as The Insider: The Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce, 1956–1962 detailing daily life inside the infamous prison during the Border Campaign. (en) |
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"I have no doubt at all that you sincerely consider yourselves dutiful Christians. It would be easy to say that you are of the criminal class, or that your expressions of devoutness are hypocrisy, but I do not find it easy to say that, and therin lies the real tragedy. (en) I only wish that those who taught you these views, as well as those who sent you to Omagh, were present today to share your punishment." (en) |
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— Lord MacDermott, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. (en) |
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Eamonn Boyce (8 August 1925 – 5 February 2020) was an Irish volunteer of the Irish Republican Army. He was considered among the leading young activists in the organisation in the early 1950s along with Charlie Murphy, Robert Russell, Tom Mitchell, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Joe Christle. He and Murphy were responsible for a successful raid on a British military barracks in Armagh in the summer of 1954. (en) |
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