Michael Devine (hunger striker)

[2] In 1960, when Devine was six years of age, the Devine family including his grandmother, sister Margaret and parents Patrick and Elizabeth, moved to the then newly built Creggan estate to the north of Derry city centre.

[4] In July 1971, soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment fired into a crowd of approximately 70 people stoning them, fatally wounding two civilians, Dessie Beattie and Seamus Cusack.

After this incident, Devine joined the James Connolly branch of the Republican Clubs in Derry.

[4] Unhappy with the path taken by the leadership of the Official IRA, Devine helped found the INLA in 1975.

[9][14] After the Requiem offered in St Mary's chapel, the funeral took place from Devine's sister's home, in Rathkeele Way, to the cemetery.