Richard O’Rawe (born 1953) is a former Irish republican activist and author of several books about The Troubles.
Richard O'Rawe was born in 1953 and spent the first fourteen years of his life in the Lower Falls district of Belfast.
In 1970, his home in Peel Street was demolished as part of the redevelopment of the area and he and his family moved to Ballymurphy, a new housing estate.
As a result of the heightened conflict in the area, O'Rawe got involved in Irish republican politics.
He suggests that the IRA rejected the deal as the Irish republican candidate Owen Carron would have a better chance of winning the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election if the hunger strike was ongoing on polling day.