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About Michael McVerry
- Michael McVerry (1 December 1949 – 15 November 1973), was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and Officer Commanding of the First Battalion of the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade.
- He was killed in Keady in 1973.McVerry was born and raised in the townland of Skerriff near Cullyhanna, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
- He attended Cullyhanna Primary School and later Bessbrook Technical College before starting work on building sites throughout Ireland. Michael McVerry joined the IRA in August 1971.
- He was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison and later The Curragh camp, both in the Republic of Ireland, where he took part in a hunger and thirst strike.
- On Sunday, 29 October 1972 he and six other comrades (Colm Murphy, James Hazlett, Thomas McGrath, Paddy Carty, James McCabe and Christopher Murphy) audaciously escaped from The Curragh through a tunnel and returned to IRA active service. He gradually became the most experienced guerrilla fighter in the IRA at that time and a legend among the local republican population in south Armagh.
- In 1973 he lost his hand while testing grenades.
- In August of that year he got married. On 15 November 1973 he was killed during an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks in Keady.
- He was shot by British soldiers after placing a 100 lb bomb against the gable wall of the barracks during the IRA attack.
- The resulting explosion badly damaged the station and surrounding properties.
- A second device failed to detonate.
- A gun battle started as the IRA unit withdrew after attack between them and members of the RUC and British Army in which a policeman was shot in the shoulder.
- One member of the IRA was also hit.
- The IRA unit escaped towards Carnagh Custom Post on the border, where they hijacked two cars and set fire to the Custom Post before escaping across the border.
- McVerry was taken to St Mary's Hospital in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, but was found to be dead on arrival from a bullet wound in the stomach.
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