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		<title>Jim Gibney on Brendan Duddy: Secret go-between shines a light on history makers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secret go-between shines a light on history makers By Jim Gibney, The Thursday Column (Irish News) 06/08/09 The names most publicly associated with the Irish peace process are Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, John Hume, Albert Reynolds, Bertie Ahern, Fr Alex Reid, David Trimble, Ian Paisley, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. The one name which does [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Rusty Nail&#8221;: Prolonging the Hunger Strike: The Derailing of the ICJP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 17, 2009 Prolonging the Hunger Strike: The Derailing of the ICJP Rusty Nail at Slugger O’Toole   In addition to last week’s expanded timeline, two interesting articles originally in the Washington Post in 1981 have been added to the new hunger strike archive: Break Seen In Ulster Jail Crisis and 5th IRA Hunger [...]


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		<title>Joe McDonnell&#8217;s Death: Expanded Timeline 29 June &#8211; 12 July 1981</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED 11 July 2009 - Excerpts from Biting at the Grave added Merged Timeline – Joe McDonnell’s death Please note this timeline is by no means definitive and is subject to revision as more sources are added and/or more evidence and information comes to light. This timeline is a verbatim compilation of various sources in [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Rusty Nail&#8221;: Updated Timeline and Upcoming Discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 10, 2009 Updated Timeline and Upcoming Discussion Rusty Nail at Slugger O’Toole A new reference website has been created as a archive of material relating to the events of the 1981 hunger strike. Already its archives are extensive, and new items are being added to it on a regular basis. Today, an expanded [...]


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		<title>Thatcher&#8217;s &#8216;offer to hunger strikers&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thatcher&#8217;s &#8216;offer to hunger strikers&#8217; Former priest reveals how IRA spurned PM&#8217;s compromise deal to save prisoners&#8217; lives in 1981 Henry McDonald, Ireland editor The Observer, Sunday 30 April 2006 Margaret Thatcher offered a compromise deal that would have ended the 1981 hunger strike early and saved six of the remaining prisoners who went on [...]


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		<title>Thatcher&#8217;s dealings with IRA go back to hunger strikes (1999)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 1999 20:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thatcher&#8217;s dealings with IRA go back to hunger strikes (by Henry McDonald, The Observer) See also: Thatcher’s ‘offer to hunger strikers’ (2006) MARGARET Thatcher &#8211; who vowed in public never to negotiate with terrorists &#8211; used the secret &#8220;back channel&#8221; between the IRA and MI5 as far back as the 1981 hunger strike to offer [...]


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		<title>Thatcher&#8217;s Secret Channel &amp; Deal to End Hunger Strike (1999)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 1999 02:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No headline or by-line. Dated 17 Oct 1999 Margaret Thatcher &#8211; who vowed never to negotiate with terrorists &#8211; used a secret channel between the IRA and MI5 as far back as the 1981 hunger strike to offer republicans a deal to end the prison fast. The link between MI5 and the IRA, the former [...]


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		<title>Thatcher gave approval to talks with IRA (1999)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 1999 02:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thatcher gave approval to talks with IRA Northern Ireland: special report Premier who &#8216;never talked to terrorists&#8217; allowed minister to contact leaders through secret channel Nicholas Watt, Political Correspondent The Guardian, Saturday 16 October 1999 03.17 BST Margaret Thatcher gave her personal approval to secret talks between government officials and the IRA leadership in 1990, [...]


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		<title>Solution Sabotaged &#8211; Garret Fitzgerald (1991)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 1991 00:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extract from former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald&#8217;s  1991 autobigography, All in a Life, 1991; pages 367 – 371. This section of Fitzgerald&#8217;s autobiography is a detailed account that deals specifically with the events during the hunger strike of 1 &#8211; 8 July. It sheds particular light on the Adams-Morrison negotiations with the British and its impact on the ICJP&#8217;s efforts. [...]


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