The Dark contains Selected Writings and talks from former Irish Republican Army volunteer, political prisoner, and Hunger Striker, Brendan Hughes. -Tony O\'Hara, Lifelong Republican Socialist Activist, Former Political Prisoner, Author, and Musician Just as Brendan, we [...] must continue the unfinished struggle of our ancestors, who smashed the Vikings at Clontarf in 1014, who massacred the English lords at Glenmalure in 1580, who littered the streets around Mount Street Bridge with the bodies of British soldiers in 1916, and who, being deprived of any other weapon in the concentration camps of Long Kesh in 1981 decided<.
And he died broken-hearted that his struggle had been sold out so cheaply by his former comrades.
He defied the British both insde and outside the prisons.
Above all else, Brendan Hughes was a freedom fighter with tremendous courage. -Anthony McIntyre, Ph.
D., Former Provisional Irish Republican Army Volunteer and Political Prisoner, Writer, and Historian Announcing the start of the 1980 Hunger Strike in Long Kesh, IRA OC Brendan Hughes stated, \'We come in search of a 32-county Socialist Republic.\' He called the Strike off on December 18th, saving the life of Sean McKenna, who had fallen into a coma.
A man with faults, foibles-and feet not grounded in clay.
The Dark has bequeathed to posterity many of his thoughts, whether on the Irish Republican struggle, the poor, or the Palestinians.
For someone who went under the moniker of The Dark, he brought remarkable light to bear on situations others tried to obfuscate.
It was he who coined the phrase Got Fuck All, a play on the GFA acronym.
But during the week of the Good Friday Agreement, he is remembered for his swift distillation of what the Agreement meant.
At different times of the year Brendan will be remembered for different things.
In addition to a carefully curated selection of Hughes\' own writings, The Dark includes new essays from Republican veterans close to Hughes, as well as two previously unpublished communications to Hughes\' brother, Terry, dating from the 1980 and 1981 Hunger Strikes, graciously donated by the Hughes family.
With incredible wit, Hughes\' words illustrate the struggles of revolutionary life after the GFA, and describe how the Agreement was never intended for his class-the working class.
Focusing on the time after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, this new collection amplifies a voice the political mainstream worked doggedly to silence.
The Dark contains Selected Writings and talks from former Irish Republican Army volunteer, political prisoner, and Hunger Striker, Brendan Hughes
