deaths
August 8, 1981
Thomas McElwee, Irish republican, PIRA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
Thomas McElwee
Thomas McElwee was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who participated in the 1981 hunger strike. From Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, he died at the age of 23 after 62 days on hunger strike.