Jul 13, 2009
July 1981
Uncovering the Truth About the 1981 Hunger Strike
- 1981
- 1991
- 1999
- 2001
- 2005
- 2006
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- Bobby Sands Trust
- Book Reviews
- Brendan Duddy
- Cartoons
- Documents
- Dolours Price
- Ed Moloney
- Garret FitzGerald
- Gasyard Debate
- ICJP
- Interviews
- Irish America
- Irish Government
- Irish News Special Issue
- Margaret Thatcher
- Media
- Mountain Climber
- News articles
- Sile Darragh
- Statements
- Ten Men Dead
- The British Offer from Thatcher
- Timelines
- Uncategorized
Recent Items
- Adams rejected chance of early end to hunger strike
- Provo bosses let hunger-strikers die – they know who they are and so do I
- Mountain Climber Notes + Timeline
- “Rusty Nail”: The Smoking Gun
- Mountain Climber Notes
- Press Release: Unseen Documents Unveiled during Launch of Duddy Archive at NUI Galway
- Richard O’Rawe speech in Chicago
- Underlying Slur in Morrison’s Hunger Strike Comments
- How Could Brits Renege if There Was No Offer?
- Did Hunger Strikers Believe Danny’s Spin?
- UPDATED: Danny Morrison on the end of the 1980 hunger strike
- Gerry Adams: The ’81 hunger strike
- Forget the myths, Adams didn’t trade lives for votes
- The Tragedy of 1980
- Adams starved hunger strikers of the truth
- Read between the lines and shine Ghost Light on Gaza
- “LETTER TO PRESS – EVERYONE RECOGNISES THAT, REPUBLICAN P.R.O. H-BLOCKS”
- The Public and the Private
- Former IRA prison leader releases O’Rawe ‘comms’
- Interview with Bik McFarlane, Derry Journal
- Sentinel: Never-before-seen 1981 hunger strike documents disclosed
- NIO documents released to Sentinel
- Finding a way through a maze of missed chances
- Jim Gibney: Hunger Striker Helped Others Through Toughest Times
- Gerry Adams speech on Joe McDonnell: A Heroic Leader
- NIO ordered to respond to Sentinel request
- Deadline for NIO on Hunger Strike FOI Request: 8 March 2009
- Excerpt from Adams interview with Irish News
- Irish News letters page: There was no hunger strike offer
- Irish News letters page: Act provides facts
- Irish News letters page: Only an inquiry can solve 1981 Hunger Strike issues
- Irish News letters page: The Facts of the Hunger Strike Have Already Been Established
- Radio Free Eireann interviews Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
- Thomas ‘Dixie’ Elliott: “We got nothing”
- Irish News letters: Judge the hunger strikers on their own brave deeds
Index
- 1981 (12)
- 1991 (1)
- 1999 (3)
- 2001 (2)
- 2005 (27)
- 2006 (12)
- 2008 (6)
- 2009 (141)
- 2010 (10)
- 2011 (13)
- Bobby Sands Trust (8)
- Book Reviews (8)
- Brendan Duddy (11)
- Cartoons (3)
- Commentary (84)
- "Rusty Nail" (24)
- Anthony McIntyre (14)
- Brian Rowan (2)
- Danny Morrison (16)
- Jim Gibney (1)
- Liam Clarke (4)
- Documents (9)
- Dolours Price (1)
- Ed Moloney (1)
- Garret FitzGerald (3)
- Gasyard Debate (8)
- Gerry Adams (17)
- ICJP (6)
- Interviews (10)
- Irish America (2)
- Irish Government (6)
- Irish News Special Issue (25)
- Margaret Thatcher (7)
- Media (177)
- An Phoblacht (16)
- Andersonstown News (8)
- Belfast Telegraph (9)
- Derry Journal (13)
- Irish News (66)
- Irish Times (4)
- Letters (15)
- Slugger O'Toole (26)
- Sunday Times (3)
- The Blanket (11)
- The Pensive Quill (12)
- Mountain Climber (13)
- News articles (57)
- Sile Darragh (2)
- Statements (91)
- Blanketmen (10)
- Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane (11)
- Brendan Hughes (4)
- Colm Scullion (2)
- Families (20)
- Former Hunger Strikers (11)
- IRSP (12)
- Kevin McQuillan (2)
- Martin McGuinness (1)
- Richard O'Rawe (14)
- Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (1)
- Sinn Fein (6)
- Ten Men Dead (4)
- The British Offer from Thatcher (6)
- Timelines (5)
- Uncategorized (3)
Keywords
"Rusty Nail" 1981 1991 1999 2001 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 Andersonstown News An Phoblacht Anthony McIntyre Belfast Telegraph Blanketmen Bobby Sands Trust Book Reviews Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane Brendan Duddy Brendan Hughes Brian Rowan Cartoons Colm Scullion Commentary Danny Morrison Derry Journal Documents Dolours Price Ed Moloney Families Former Hunger Strikers Garret FitzGerald Gasyard Debate Gerry Adams ICJP Interviews Irish America Irish Government Irish News Irish News Special Issue Irish Times IRSP Jim Gibney Kevin McQuillan Letters Liam Clarke Margaret Thatcher Martin McGuinness Media Mountain Climber News articles Richard O'Rawe Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Sile Darragh Sinn Fein Slugger O'Toole Statements Sunday Times Ten Men Dead The Blanket The British Offer from Thatcher The Pensive Quill Timelines Uncategorized
Twitter Updates
- Adams rejected chance of early end to hunger strike - http://t.co/joBRtid9 1 month ago
- Provo bosses let hunger-strikers die – they know who they are and so do I http://t.co/f98bW7T3 1 month ago
- From 2005: Raw Truth of Hunger Strike http://t.co/3gW2xhfl 2 months ago
- Mountain Climber Notes + Timeline http://t.co/xL7cRDSN 2 months ago
- Mountain Climber’s Notes + Timeline http://t.co/8AtzWsPN 2 months ago
- “Rusty Nail”: The Smoking Gun http://t.co/4lEkgcRZ 2 months ago
- Mountain Climber Notes http://t.co/OOvnQrmw 2 months ago
- Press Release: Unseen Documents Unveiled during Launch of Duddy Archive at NUI Galway http://t.co/on90QE0h 2 months ago
Contents
New to Archive
- Expanded Timeline of the Events between 29 June - 10 July: updated to include Mountain Climber notes and John Blelloch
- Mountain Climber Notes: Brendan Duddy has donated his papers to be archived at NUI Galway. 4 pages of relevance to the July offer are available. "Rusty Nail" deconstructs them and a Timeline of events placing them in context has been added to the site.
- The Death of Garret Fitzgerald:
• Excerpt from Garret Fitzgerald's autobiography
• Irish News: Deal with British government vetoed by IRA says FitzGerald - Expanded Timeline of the Events between 29 June - 10 July: Sourced from Danny Morrison, Garret Fitzgerald, British Government documents, Ten Men Dead, Before the Dawn, Biting at the Grave, INLA Deadly Divisions, Blanketmen, Irish News, Belfast Telegraph, and eyewitness accounts.
- Articles by Danny Morrison and Jim Gibney detailing a visit to Long Kesh after its closure added to archive.
- Irish News: Was There a Deal? Special investigation added to archives. 28 & 29 September 2009 editions
- Two articles from July 1981 have been added to the archive which show details of the ICJP settlement: British and IRA Prisoners Appear Ready To Move Toward Agreement and 5th IRA Hunger Striker Dies Before Settlement Reached
- An archive for 1999 has been created with 3 articles detailing Thatcher's negotiations with the IRA during the hunger strike
- The 2005 Archive has been updated with 11 new items, including book reviews, interviews with Bik McFarlane, and articles by Hugh Logue (ICJP), Richard O'Rawe and Danny Morrison. Click and scroll for more.
1. Primary Sources
2. Commentary
3. "Rusty Nail" at Slugger O'Toole
- a. O’Rawe’s account confirmed: Hunger Strikers Allowed To Die (28 March 08)
- b. Hunger Strike Controversy Has Not Gone Away, You Know (17 April 08)
- c. O'Rawe and the Derry Journal (18 April 08)
- d. 'Adams Complicit Over Hunger Strikers?' (5 April 09)
- e. Did Thatcher Kill All Ten, or only 4? (7 April 09)
- f. “Let’s have the whole truth” (9 April 09)
- g. What were the hunger strikers told? (12 April 09)
- h. When in a hole… (19 May 09)
- i. Upcoming Debate: “What is the Truth Behind the Hunger Strike?” (21 May 09)
- j. The Truth is a Heart-breaking Thing (24 May 09)
- k. 1981 Hunger Strike Truth Commission (25 May 09)
- l. “I will not be attending and will not send a representative” (26 May 09)
- m. “This is a huge opportunity and I feel there’s a potential here to end this” (4 June 09)
- n. Gerry Adams to meet Hunger Strikers Families; Inquiry Sought (13 June 09)
- o. Gulladuff: More Heat Than Light (19 June 09)
- p. Prolonging the Hunger Strike: The Derailing of the ICJP (17 July 09)
- q. Gerry Adams and Kieran Doherty, 29 July 1981 (8 August 09)
- r. 1981 Hunger Strike: A Case to Answer (28 Sept 09)
- s. 1981 Hunger Strike: Deconstructing McGuinness (28 Sept 09)
4. Political Groups
5. Books
- Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer That Changed Irish History, by Richard O'Rawe
- Before the Dawn, by Gerry Adams
- Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair, by Padraig O'Malley
- Blanketmen: An untold story of the H-Block hunger strike by Richard O'Rawe
- INLA: Deadly Divisions by Jack Holland and Henry McDonald
- Ten Men Dead, David Beresford
Archives
- December 2011 (2)
- November 2011 (4)
- August 2011 (1)
- January 2011 (7)
- December 2010 (2)
- November 2010 (3)
- October 2010 (1)
- September 2010 (1)
- August 2010 (2)
- July 2010 (2)
- February 2010 (3)
- December 2009 (1)
- November 2009 (6)
- October 2009 (24)
- September 2009 (30)
- August 2009 (9)
- July 2009 (19)
- June 2009 (28)
- May 2009 (12)
- April 2009 (18)
- March 2009 (2)
- April 2008 (4)
- March 2008 (2)
- July 2006 (2)
- June 2006 (3)
- May 2006 (5)
- April 2006 (1)
- August 2005 (1)
- May 2005 (2)
- April 2005 (2)
- March 2005 (21)
- August 2001 (2)
- October 1999 (3)
- October 1991 (1)
- July 1981 (2)
There's an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years, and will do so to the end.
- 1981
- 1991
- 1999
- 2001
- 2005
- 2006
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- Bobby Sands Trust
- Book Reviews
- Brendan Duddy
- Cartoons
- Documents
- Dolours Price
- Ed Moloney
- Garret FitzGerald
- Gasyard Debate
- ICJP
- Interviews
- Irish America
- Irish Government
- Irish News Special Issue
- Margaret Thatcher
- Media
- Mountain Climber
- News articles
- Sile Darragh
- Statements
- Ten Men Dead
- The British Offer from Thatcher
- Timelines
- Uncategorized
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