Education
He studied in the Limerick, Cork, in Ireland and Ontario, in Canada Colleges of Artist
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Gerard Casey
Gerard Casey was a member of the 1st North Antrim Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Career
Casey a Catholic, first joined the Ireland Republican Army in 1985. Like some of his colleagues, his membership was clandestine. In October 1988 Casey"s home in Shamrock Park outside Rasharkin (Ros Earcáin) was raided by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
While there they removed a legally held shotgun and drew maps of the interior of the house.
Casey was charged with possession of explosives, and was taken away to Castlereagh holding centre. The funeral was kept private for family members only.
Neighbours described him as "a quiet family man with no interest in any political activities", and even Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley condemned the killing as "a diabolical crime showing devilish viciousness" such was the lack of knowledge about Casey"s Ireland Republican Army membership. The Conflict Archive on the Internet states that Casey was killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), in disagreement with other sources.
The fact that Casey"s Ireland Republican Army membership had not been well-known led to the suggestions that the security forces had passed on information about his membership to the loyalists.
Casey"s relatives maintained that there was RUC collusion with those who killed Casey, and no-one has been charged with his murder. Casey said before his death that his life had been threatened by the RUC. Sinn Féin have called for a full and independent investigation into his death. In 2005 Gerard Casey"s wife Una and the relatives of other murdered Irish republicans criticised Social Democratic and Labour Party (Social Democratic and Labour Party) member John Dallat for not condemning the murders at the time but later raising them for political benefit.
Dallat responded by saying he condemned all murders.
Soon after coming to office in 2010 Attorney General for Northern Ireland John Larkin ordered a new inquest into Casey"s death.
Achievements
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Oireachtas - Douglas Hyde Gold Medal awarded by The Arts Council in 1993;
Arts Council Travel in 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1997;
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamakerrig - Residency in 1994.
Membership
Provisional Irish Republican Army]
On 4 April 1989 two members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA, a loyalist paramilitary group), wearing balaclavas and green army jackets, burst into his house and shot him with a shotgun and a pistol from close range as he slept. Casey"s brother Liam, also a member of the Ireland Republican Army, had been killed in a car accident two years previously in 1987.
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Born
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Died
April 4, 1989 (aged 29) -
Nationality
Irish -
Religion
Catholic -
Political Party
Democratic Unionist Party
Awards
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Oireachtas - Douglas Hyde Gold Medal awarded by The Arts Council in 1993;Arts Council Travel in 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1997;Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamakerrig - Residency in 1994.