Sam Millar

Sam Millar (born 1955) is a crime writer and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Millar was also 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.

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.

In 1993 Millar was involved in a Brink's heist in Rochester, New York. He had worked in New York's casinos for several years and had built a strong familiarity with Brinks's internal security, enabling 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. 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 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.