Thomas McMahon
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Thomas McMahon was a Volunteer within the Provisional IRA who is most notable for the killing of Lord Mountbatten of Burma at Mullaghmore, County Sligo. Three other people were killed in the bomb blast which destroyed Mountbatten's fishing boat:
- The Dowager Baroness Brabourne, Mountbatten's elder daughter's mother-in-law (aged 83).
- The Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull, his elder daughter's fourth son (aged 14).
- Paul Maxwell, a 15 year old Protestant youth from County Fermanagh who was working as a crew member.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Republic Of Ireland on 23 November 1979, but was released in 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement.
Harndon in 'Bandit Country' reports that McMahon was holding a tricolour in the first rank of the IRA colour party at a 1998 IRA meeting in Cullyhanna.
[edit] References
- Toby Harnden, Bandit Country -The IRA and South Armagh, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1999, ISBN 0-340-71736-X
