Tom McFeely (born 1949) is an Irish property developer and former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Originally from Dungiven area in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, McFeely was drawn into the violence that signalled the beginning of the Troubles in 1969 and would soon become a member of the Provisional IRA. Following a period of living life on the run, McFeely was captured and imprisoned after he and an accomplice robbed a post office in the mid-1970s. McFeely was sent to HM Prison Maze where he took on a leadership role amongst other imprisoned IRA men. In 1980 McFeely led seven IRA men on a hunger strike in protest against the revoking of special status for political prisoners, ultimately surviving for 53 days without food until the strike was called off by IRA leadership. In 1986 McFeely was amongst a number of Irish republicans who split from the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin over their recognition of the legitimacy of Dáil Éireann. He subsequently founded the League of Communist Republicans alongside fellow inmate Tommy McKearney.

In 1989 McFeely successfully appealed his case and was released from prison. He thereafter moved to Dublin and entered the construction industry, just as a building boom began as part of Ireland's Celtic Tiger era. Accumulating significant wealth in the 1990s, by the 2000s McFeely was the subject of several criminal investigations. Those investigations found that McFeely had avoided paying millions of euros in taxes and that his property companies had built substandard housing across Ireland. By the early 2010s, McFeely had been declared bankrupt in multiple countries. As of 2023^[update], McFeely continues to work in the construction sector in Ireland and Northern Ireland. A 2022 article in the Irish Times described McFeely as "arguably the most disastrous developer to have operated in Ireland over recent decades".

Thomas Bernard McFeely was born in the village of Farkland, near Dungiven in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1949. He was the eldest of 11 siblings to Catholic parents. His grandfather served in the British army during World War I while his uncle was a British marine who was killed in action. McFeely has described his grandmother and mother as militantly anti-British following the death of his uncle. McFeely's father was a cattle trader with Irish nationalist views.

McFeely was educated in Derry until the age of 14, at which point he began simultaneously working for his father and working on construction sites. One of McFeely's first encounters with Irish Republicanism was during the 1966 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland, in which he voted for the republican Neil Gillespie instead of the Nationalist Party candidate Paddy Gormley in the Londonderry constituency.

In 1968 McFeely briefly relocated to England before returning to Northern Ireland at the outset of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. McFeely has claimed to have been involved in riots that occurred in that period such as the Battle of the Bogside. It was during this period that McFeely heard speeches by political activists such as Bernadette Devlin and Eamonn McCann and became intrigued by their socialist stances.

By the early 1970s, McFeely was actively involved in the Provisional IRA, which lead to his arrest and sentencing to six months of jail time. Instead, McFeely went on the lamb and fled over the border to the Republic of Ireland. He soon returned to Northern Ireland, moving his wife and children to County Antrim, where he soon set out to bomb the local dole office. However, McFeely was caught in the act by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. In 1974 McFeely fled once again to the Republic, however this time he was subsequently caught in County Leitrim and imprisoned on a charge of illegally possessing firearms. In August 1974 McFeely and 18 other republicans escaped from Portlaoise prison when they used gelignite to blow a hole in the perimeter wall.

In the mid-1970s McFeely was involved in the robbery of a post office in Northern Ireland; following the robbery McFeely and his accomplice, another member of the IRA, were pursued to a rural house by the RUC. The authorities lay siege to the house and during the course of events, McFeely shot (but did not kill) a member of the RUC. Eventually, McFeely and the other man surrendered and were arrested. McFeely was charged and found guilty of attempted murder, possession of weapons and the robbery of the post office, and sentenced to 26 years in prison in 1977. The presiding judge described McFeely as "an extremely dangerous, intelligent and vicious young man".

Following a decision by the British state to no longer recognise IRA prisoners as "political prisoners" with special status within prisons, McFeely was amongst seven IRA men who went on hunger strike in 1980 in protest. Over the course of the strike, McFeely went without food for 53 days. McFeely and the rest ended their strike when it appeared to the IRA that they had successfully brokered an official deal with the British government. However, this deal was never actually secured. McFeely, who had opposed the original order to end the strike, was infuriated that no deal was ever actually officially struck. Nevertheless, during the 1981 hunger strikes, McFeely once again offered to strike, but this was rejected by the IRA leadership.