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Richard O'Rawe

Biography

Richard O'Rawe

Richard O’Rawe is a former IRA operative who was imprisoned in the Long Kesh penitentiary during the 1981 hunger strike by prisoners, which resulted in the death of 10 prisoners. O’Rawe was the IRA’s press officer for the prisoners. He would later go on to write a bestselling book about the experience, BLANKETMEN: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike, as well as several other books inspired by his experiences in the IRA, including AFTERLIVES: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer that Changed Irish History, and IN THE NAME OF THE SON: The Gerry Conlon Story.

Richard O'Rawe

Books by Richard O'Rawe

Goering's Gold: A Ructions O'Hare Novel
by Richard O'Rawe - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

When WWII ended, the allies discovered that a huge amount of gold bullion plundered by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had gone missing. Some believed the gold had been hidden in a train box car in Poland. Others that it was secreted in Lake Toplitz in the Austrian Alps. And a few thought it was buried in the Republic of Ireland, which was neutral during the war. When ex-IRA soldier Ructions O'Hare stumbles on a piece of Nazi memorabilia once owned by Goering, he begins to think that those who suspect the gold was in Ireland just might be on to something. But for Ructions to return to Ireland is easier said than done.

Northern Heist: A Ructions O'Hare Novel
by Richard O'Rawe - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut --- not even former Provo James “Ructions” O'Hare. But when word gets around that O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees --- known as a "tiger" kidnapping --- in order to force them to help Ructions and his crew get into the bank's vault. But keeping the plan --- and the money --- from the IRA is another plan entirely, one requiring all of Ructions' cunning and skill.