Kevin Coen

Kevin Coen (1947 - 20 January 1975) was a volunteer in the Sligo Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was killed in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, by the British Army.
Background
Coen was born and grew up in Rusheen, Riverstown, south County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.
Paramilitary activity
Coen joined the IRA and served with the Sligo Brigade and was a member of the Southern Command. In 1971, Coen was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where he was jailed with fellow Republican Dan Hoban.
At the age of 28, Coen was killed by a British Army soldier while on active service at Cassidy's Cross (also known as Mullan Cross) near Kinawley, a village in the south-west of County Fermanagh, close to the County Cavan / County Fermanagh border, on 20 January 1975. The CAIN Sutton Index lists him as being shot during an attempted bus hijacking.
Coen was the first volunteer from the Southern Command to be killed on active service since Tony Ahern died in May 1973.
There is an annual lecture given in his name which has been addressed by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Pat Doherty, Pearse Doherty, Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Gerry Adams in recent years.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu