Up Like A Bird
Published on 31. January 2024
979-8-223-53147-0 (ISBN)
Description
Brendan Hughes' gritty, fast-paced memoir charts his rise through the ranks of the Irish Republican Army in the early years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Hughes reveals how his secret unit planned and executed the celebrated helicopter escape from Dublin's Mountjoy Jail in 1973 and carried out a series of audacious bank raids to fund the organisation's armed resistance to British rule. For the first time, he also tells the inside story of how the IRA planned a successful mass breakout from Ireland's maximum-security Portlaoise Prison.
This book, first published in 2022 and updated in 2024, is a bestseller in Ireland.
