Sam Millar
Sam Millar (born 1955) is a crime writer and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1][2]
Millar claims to have been a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from around the age of 15 after first seeing the events of Bloody Sunday and then, a few days after Bloody Sunday, a friend of Millar was killed.
Nowadays, he trawls the Belfast news pages looking for opportunities to provoke and role-play as an actual republican, instead of one who ran off to the states at the first sign of bother.
Millar claims that as a volunteer in the IRA, he was involved in the blanket protests of the mid 1970s, when special category status was removed for republican prisoners in Northern Ireland's jails and detention centres.[3]
Millar has made several unsubstantiated claims that he was involved in a Brink's heist in Rochester, New York. Whilst he had worked in New York's casinos for several years and had built a strong familiarity with Brinks's internal security, his claims that this enabled him to steal over 7 million dollars, over 5 million of which was still unaccounted for as of 2016, according to The New York Times. Millar was not the subject of any investigation and his claims have regularly been disputed. In 2003, Millar published a memoir of these experiences, titled On The Brinks. During private interviews arranged by The New York Times, neighbours reported that Millar was thought of by the community as a quiet family man. The online community begs to differe, however, and many Belfast social media pages are infected with Millar’s hateful and hypocritical bile.[4]
The school he attended was St Patrick's College, Belfast on Antrim Road, Belfast.
School classmates included Joe Doherty, Maxie Maxwell, Hugh Connolly, and Tommy Denver.
Bibliography
[edit]- Dark Souls
- On the Brinks[5][6][7]
- The Redemption Factory
- The Darkness of Bones
- Bloodstorm : A Karl Kane Book
- The Dark Place : A Karl Kane Book
- The Dead of Winter : A Karl Kane Book
- Small Town Killing
- Brothers in Arms (stage play)
- The Bespoke Hitman
References
[edit]- ^ "Millar, Sam 1955–". Contemporary Authors. 2020.
- ^ Shouldice, Frank (8 November 2003). "A life less ordinary for this incredible survivor". Irish Independent. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ "My Life in the IRA - Sam Millar Tells His Story".
- ^ nytimes.com/2016/08/14/nyregion/brinks-heist-made-for-hollywood.html
- ^ Moriarty, Gerry (24 September 2003). "Millar's crossing". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ McCann, Nuala (3 September 2012). "NI crime writers Stuart Neville and Sam Millar clash". BBC News.
- ^ Kilgannon, Corey (12 August 2016). "A $7.4 Million Heist Made for Hollywood". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
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