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		<title>Brendan Hughes: Ending the 1980 Hunger Strike</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Risking the Lives of Volunteers is Not the IRA Way Brendan Hughes • Irish News, 13 July 2006 In a recent BBC documentary Bernadette McAliskey stated that she would have let Sean McKenna die during the 1980 hunger strike in order to outmanoeuvre British brinkmanship. Implicit in her comments was a criticism of those senior [...]
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		<title>Richard O&#8217;Rawe, PSF, and Events in 1981</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard O&#8217;Rawe, PSF, and Events in 1981 &#8220;It only becomes the truth when it is officially denied.&#8221; Gerard Foster, The Blanket • 8 July 2006 I imagine from the title of this article it would be natural to think I am writing about O&#8217;Rawes&#8217; book, Blanketmen. Nothing could be further from the truth. I haven&#8217;t [...]
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		<title>Salvaging History from Deceit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salvaging History from Deceit Some disguised falsehoods represent the truth so well, that it would be bad judgement not to be deceived by them - Francois de La Rouchefoucauld Forum Magazine Editorial • June/July 2006 Throughout February 2005 the airwaves and print columns were dominated by the gangland-style murder of Robert McCartney. Two months into [...]
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		<title>Brendan Hughes: O&#8217;Rawe Told Me His Concerns (2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#8217;Rawe Told Me His Concerns Brendan Hughes • Irish News, 19 May 2006 IT is not my intention to take sides in the ongoing debate over the claims made in the book Blanketmen by its author Richard O’Rawe. I am not in a position to speak authoritatively on the matter. I was in the same [...]
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		<title>Anthony McIntyre interviews Richard O&#8217;Rawe (2006)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Blanket&#8217; meets &#8216;Blanketmen&#8217; All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident - Arthur Schopenhauer Anthony McIntyre speaks with Richard O&#8217;Rawe • 16 May 2006 Q: This month marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, Frank Hughes, Raymond [...]
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		<title>O&#8217;Rawe responds to Gibney (2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 13:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Blanketman Speaks Out Against ‘Vitriolic Attack’ Richard O&#8217;Rawe, Irish News • 15 May 2006 A fellow republican said to me last week that over the period of Bobby Sands’ anniversary, the republican movement had done everything except paint the Star of David on my windows and daub Juden Raus on my front door. I [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conflict Encapsulated Blanketmen &#8211; An untold story of the H-Block hunger strike By Richard O&#8217;Rawe Book Review David Adams • The Other View, August 2005 In Blanketmen, Richard O&#8217;Rawe claims the IRA leadership in the Maze Prison was prepared to accept a substantive offer from the British Government that would have brought an early [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[A Salute to Comrades Book Review Dolours Price, The Blanket • 18 May 2005 After reading &#8216;Ten Men Dead&#8217; I swore that I would never again read about the Hunger Strike of 1981. I cried at every page and my husband eventually hid the book. I bought another. My levels of sadness rose at the [...]
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Must Read To fully appreciate the controversary surrounding the book, it must be read BLANKETMEN An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike RICHARD O&#8217;RAWE, New Island Press Book Review Mick Hall, The Blanket • 18 March 2005 I once asked a former member of the British Army Intelligence Corp if there was any [...]
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