Joe Mc Cann

Joe Mc Cann

Joe McCann (2 November 1947 - 15 April 1972) was an Irish Republican Army and later Official Irish Republican Army volunteer from Belfast. He was active in politics from the early 1960s and participated, as an Official IRA volunteer, in the early years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He was killed after being confronted by the R.U.C. Special Branch and British soldiers in 1972 aged 24.

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