About the Author: Richard Greene
Richard Greene served as a public representative on Dublin County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. He campaigned over many years for innocent people jailed during the Northern Ireland conflict and founded with others the Irish National Congress in the late Eighties in order to encourage the various IRA factions to engage politically with the Northern problem. He is a longtime member of the 1916-1921 Club whose mission is to honour all the men and women who fought for Irish freedom regardless of what side they took in the Civil War.