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		<title>Jim Gibney: Hunger Striker Helped Others Through Toughest Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: There are two versions of this article: the one published in the Irish News, and a slightly different one on the Bobby Sands website. Both verisons can be found below. Hunger Striker Helped Others Through Toughest Times Jim Gibney Thursday Column, Irish News 8/07/10 It does not happen very often that the publication of [...]


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		<title>Excerpt from Adams interview with Irish News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerry Adams Interview with Diana Rusk: excerpt on 1981 Hunger Strike The Irish News 11 February 2010 Diana Rusk: Turning to the Hunger Strike, there is a vocal minority that believe you turned down a possible deal with the British government after the fourth hunger striker died. What is your response to that? Gerry Adams: [...]


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		<title>Irish News letters page: There was no hunger strike offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was no hunger strike offer Irish News letters page Manus McDaid, Derry 07/12/09 With reference to the letter entitled ‘The truth about the Hunger Strikers’ by Mr Tony O’Hara (October 22), one has to reiterate again the position taken by the hunger strikers the second time around. They made five demands to be met [...]


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		<title>Irish News letters page: Act provides facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Act provides facts Irish News letters page T Molloy, Belfast 11 21/11/09 Sean Flynn (The Irish News, October 17) says that he visited INLA hunger strikers on July 5 1981 and they were not aware that talks were going on in the background. He says he saw Danny Morrison in the prison. Morrison says he [...]


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		<title>Irish News letters page: Only an inquiry can solve 1981 Hunger Strike issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only an inquiry can solve 1981 Hunger Strike issues Irish News letters page Gerard Foster, Andersonstown 20/11/2009 Having read the two articles on the 1981 Hunger Strike issue (Irish News, October 22) of an offer made by the British, a number of things jumped out at me. Firstly, how Richard O’Rawe stuck to asking questions [...]


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		<title>Irish News letters page: The Facts of the Hunger Strike Have Already Been Established</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts of the hunger strikes have already been established Irish News letters page Carrie Twomey 17/11/09 Brendan Hughes&#8217;s second anniversary is coming up in February. Manus McDaid (October 26) seems to think that because he is not long dead, no one can know his reasons for ending the first hunger strike &#8211; &#8220;we can [...]


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		<title>Thomas &#8216;Dixie&#8217; Elliott: &#8220;We got nothing&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, November 10, 2009 &#8220;We got nothing&#8221; by Thomas &#8216;Dixie&#8217; Elliott This is an unedited version of what was carried in the Irish News I often look back to the time I spent on the blanket protest and feel privileged that I had the honour of spending some of those dark and more often than [...]


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		<title>Irish News letters: Judge the hunger strikers on their own brave deeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge the hunger strikers on their own brave deeds Irish News letters page Manus McDaid, Derry 02/11/09 It is my hope that the recent extensive coverage by The Irish News of the Hunger Strike represents the paper’s contribution to the search for closure on this painful long-running argument about British intentions during the strike. It [...]


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		<title>Sinn Fein leaders must bow to plea for Hunger Strike deal inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sinn Fein leaders must bow to plea for Hunger Strike deal inquiry Irish News, letters page Patrick Saunders Belfast 14 30/10/09 FOR a long time I have followed the debate about the 1981 Hunger Strike and the events which many people are now questioning. At the time I was just a young boy so I [...]


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		<title>Irish News letters page, 27 October 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An honest answer Irish News letters page GEAROID O TOHMRAIR Beal Feirste 12 27/10/09 I SEE that Richard O’Rawe is again peddling rubbish (October 22) about a deal on the Hunger Strike that the British government had apparently sent to Brendan Duddy and – according to Richard – was passed to Gerry Adams and rejected [...]


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