Comments on: Adams’ Revised Article for the Irish News: There was no deal

By: Did Hunger Strikers Believe Danny’s Spin? - July 1981

Did Hunger Strikers Believe Danny’s Spin? - July 1981 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:16:14 +0000

[...] last year Gerry Adams wrote in the Irish News: “The republican leadership on the outside was in contact with the British who claimed they [...]

By: Danny Morrison on the end of the 1980 hunger strike - July 1981

Danny Morrison on the end of the 1980 hunger strike - July 1981 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:54:51 +0000

[...] In December 1980 the republican leadership on the outside was in contact with the British who claimed they were interested in a settlement. But before a document outlining a new regime arrived in the jail the hunger strike was called off by Brendan Hughes to save the life of the late Sean McKenna. The British, or sections of them, interpreted this as weakness. The prisoners ended their fast before a formal ‘signing off’. And the British then refused to implement the spirit of the document and reneged on the integrity of our exchanges. Their intransigence triggered a second hunger strike in which there was overwhelming suspicion of British motives among the hunger strikers, the other political prisoners, and their families and supporters on the outside. – Gerry Adams, Irish News, 2009 [...]

By: Richard O’Rawe: There was an offer on the table – but the prisoners weren’t told - July 1981

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:54:24 +0000

[...] republican prisoner, PRO of the 1981 hunger strikers and author of Blanketmen – responds to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams on claims a deal was available which would have saved the lives of six hunger [...]