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Brendan McFarlane

IRA member

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born
1951
died
2025
age at death
74
known for
political activist

1951 – 2025

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Brendan McFarlane was an Irish republican. Born into a Roman Catholic family, he was brought up in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. At 16, he left Belfast to train as a priest in a north Wales seminary. He joined the Provisional IRA in 1969. In 1976, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his leading role in the Bayardo Bar attack which left 1 UVF volunteer and 4 civilians dead, injuring 50 others.

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