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Patrick Quinn (born 1962) was a volunteer with the 1st Battalion, South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.〔(Irish Hunger Strikes Chapter 41 )〕 The Quinn family were unable to maintain the farm after their father's death and moved to Newry, County Down in 1979.〔(Remembering 1981: Two more join the Hunger Strike )〕 ==Paramilitary activity== On 25 June 1976, Quinn along with his brother Séamus, Danny McGuinness and Raymond McCreesh planned to ambush a British Army patrol at the Mountain House Inn on the Newry-Newtownhamilton road. They hijacked a getaway car from a farm in Sturgan but were observed moving into their ambush position. They prematurely opened fire on soldiers when they began moving in to investigate and the IRA member in the car drove off. The others tried to hide in a farmhouse but were surrounded. After they failed to shoot their way out, the local Catholic parish priest facilitated their surrender.〔(Raymond McCreesh )〕〔(McCreesh Biography from IRIS, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 1981 )〕 On 2 March 1977, Quinn and McCreesh were convicted and sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempted murder, possession of a rifle and ammunition and a further five years for IRA membership.〔(Two Lives and Two Deaths for Ireland )〕〔(Guardian )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paddy Quinn (Irish republican)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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