Bernadette Sands McKevitt
Bernadette Sands McKevitt (born in November 1958[1]) is a founding member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.[2][3]
Early life
She lived in the mainly
republican West Belfast.[4] She is the younger sister of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker Bobby Sands.[5]
Personal life
Her husband was Michael McKevitt, the Quartermaster General of the Provisional IRA and later a founding member of an anti-Good Friday Agreement splinter group commonly known as the Real Irish Republican Army.[5] The couple had three children together and lived in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland.[6]
Following the
Gardaí in Dundalk in a paramilitary investigation,[9] but were not charged. In 2003, McKevitt was sentenced to twenty years in prison in the Republic of Ireland, under the Offences Against the State Act,[10] being released early in 2016.[11] He died in January 2021 after a long battle with cancer.[12]
References
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- ^ "The bombers have blown a hole in more than the BBC". The Guardian. 5 March 2001.
- ^ "Links with terror group rejected". BBC. 17 August 1997.
- ^ "Father of Maze hunger striker Bobby Sands dies at the age of 91". Belfast Newsletter. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Bobby Sands film fuels argument over Sinn Fein 'sell-out'". Belfast Telegraph. 22 May 2008.
- ^ Village.IE.Interview with Bernadette Sands 1 February 1998, retrieved 1 October 2008
- ^ "People of Dundalk turn their backs on the McKevitts". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Four found liable for Omagh bomb". RTÉ News. 9 June 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- ^ Cowan, Rosie; correspondent, Ireland (30 March 2001). "Michael and Bernadette Sands McKevitt arrested" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "McKevitt sentenced to 20 years". The Guardian. Press Association. 7 August 2003. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
- ^ Conor Lally (28 March 2016). "Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt released from prison". Irish Times. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ "Former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt dies following illness". Belfast Telegraph. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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