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Song and a short video clip of Kevin funeral
ÓGLACH KEVIN LYNCH
Died August 1st, 1981
A loyal, determined republican with a great love of life

The seventh republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on May 23rd, following the death of Patsy O’Hara, was twenty-five-year-old fellow INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch from the small, North Derry town of Dungiven who had been imprisoned since his arrest in 1976. Kevin died in the Long Kesh hospital at 1.00 a.m. on Saturday, August 1st 1981 after seventy-one days on hunger strike.

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