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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>Text of Padraic Wilson speech at Hunger Strike commemoration in West Belfast</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2009/08/18/text-of-padraic-wilson-speech-at-hunger-strike-commemoration-in-west-belfast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Padraic Wilson speaks at Hunger Strike commemoration in West Belfast Published: 18 August, 2009 &#8216;This morning the 40th anniversary of the burning of Bombay Street was remembered with a march retracing some of the main sites of the August 1969 pogroms. Along with the Battle of the Bogside those events were the catalyst that radicalised [...]
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		<title>Derry Journal: Seeking the &#8216;facts&#8217; on the hunger strike</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2009/07/10/seeking-the-facts-on-the-hunger-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking the &#8216;facts&#8217; on the hunger strike Derry Journal Published Date: 10 July 2009 A chara, In his most recent letter (Tuesday Journal, 7/7) Donncha McNiallais dismissed my questions as being opinions, rumours and speculation while pushing what he claimed to have occurred as facts. He tried to push the line that the Brits reneged [...]
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		<title>Derry Journal: You won&#8217;t bury the truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t bury the truth Derry Journal Published Date: 07 July 2009 A chara, Martina Anderson used the recent Volunteers&#8217; commemoration to make an attack on those of us who are seeking to find the truth about what actually happened on and after July 5th 1981 during the H-Block Hunger Strikes. She accused us of [...]
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		<title>Derry Journal: Hunger-strike &#8211; look at the facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunger-strike &#8211; look at the facts Derry Journal Published Date: 07 July 2009 A chara, Please allow me to respond to the letters from Willie Gallagher and Dixie Elliott. Let me start with a few facts rather the opinions, rumours and speculation that have charactarised correspondence to date. Both Willie and Dixie will be aware [...]
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		<title>Irish News: Former Blanketman Joe McNulty</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2009/06/18/irish-news-joe-mcnulty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sinn Fein talked tactics while hunger strikers died Joe McNulty, Dungannon 18/06/09 The revelation that Brendan Duddy confirmed a document from the British conceding demands on clothes, remission, work and other areas in early July 1981 (before Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson died) came as a total shock to me as a blanket man (The [...]
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		<title>&#8220;Rusty Nail&#8221;: Gerry Adams to meet Hunger Strikers Families; Inquiry Sought</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2009/06/13/rusty-nail-gerry-adams-to-meet-hunger-strikers-families-inquiry-sought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, June 13, 2009 Gerry Adams to meet Hunger Strikers Families; Inquiry Sought Rusty Nail at Slugger O&#8217;Toole This week in South Derry, bowing to pressure from recent revelations that have reduced aspects of the standard Provisional narrative of the 1981 hunger strike to self-serving propaganda, Gerry Adams and members of the 1981 PIRA sub-committee [...]
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		<title>Statement: Former Blanketman Thomas &#8216;Dixie&#8217; Elliott</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement by former Blanketman Thomas &#8216;Dixie&#8217; Elliott I feel I must respond to Donncha Mac Niallais who in his recent letter to the Derry Journal ‘defied’ any prisoner who was in the blocks at the time to deny that if a shouted conversation between Bik McFarlane and Richard O’Rawe happened it wouldn’t have been repeated [...]
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Statement: Former Hunger Striker Gerard Hodgins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time For An Inquiry says former hunger striker Gerard Hodgins In 1976 the British introduced the criminalisation policy which decreed that captured Republican volunteer soldiers would henceforth be treated as criminals, being forced to wear a criminal uniform and having no recognition whatsoever as political prisoners. This led to the Blanket Protest and subsequent hunger [...]
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