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		<title>Joe McDonnell&#8217;s Death: Expanded Timeline 29 June &#8211; 12 July 1981</title>
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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;: The Evolution Of Bik McFarlane&#8217;s Memory</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, June 04, 2009 “This is a huge opportunity and I feel there’s a potential here to end this” Rusty Nail at Slugger O&#8217;Toole Inch by inch, the truth is coming out. In a major concession, now that Richard O’Rawe’s account of the July Thatcher offer and prison leadership acceptance has been vindicated, Bik McFarlane [...]


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		<title>British ‘had no intention of resolving the hunger strike’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British ‘had no intention of resolving the hunger strike’ Brian Rowan reports Belfast Telegraph, Thursday, 4 June 2009 The IRA jail leader during the 1981 hunger strike today said the British Government never had any intention of resolving the notorious prison dispute in which 10 men starved to death. Brendan ‘Bic’ McFarlane accused the then [...]


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		<title>‘There was never any deal offered’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 19:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘There was never any deal offered’ Irish Post REPUBLICAN hunger strike prisoners who died in the Maze prison in 1981 were never offered any ‘deal’ from the Margaret Thatcher-led Government, according to Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane. McFarlane succeeded Bobby Sands as leader of the political prisoners in the H-Blocks and has vehemently denied suggestions that a [...]


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		<title>An Phoblacht: Interview with Bik McFarlane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 01:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Phoblacht, Top Stories: &#8220;The Hunger Strike will never, ever leave me&#8221; Remembering 1981: Former H-Block O/C Brendan McFarlane Brendan &#8216;Bik&#8217; McFarlane was Officer Commanding (O/C) the H-Block prisoners during the 1981 Hunger Strike. Last Friday, 5 May, on the 25th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, McFarlane spoke to An Phoblacht&#8217;s ELLA O&#8217;DWYER [...]


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		<title>Brendan &#8216;Bik&#8217; McFarlane: &#8220;It did not happen&#8221; (2005)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former comrades&#8217; war of words over hunger strike (Steven McCaffrey, Irish News) The man who led IRA prisoners inside the Maze jail during the 1981 hunger strike has dismissed a controversial new book on the period as fictitious. Brendan McFarlane speaks to Steven McCaffrey about a period that still stirs deeply held emotions among republicans. [...]


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		<title>McFarlane denies Hunger Strike deal was struck (2005)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McFarlane denies Hunger Strike deal was struck (Irelandclick.com) Brendan McFarlane, the leader of the H-Block prisoners during the hunger strikes of 1981, has rejected any suggestion that a deal was rejected before the death of Joe McDonnell. The North Belfast man said the claims in Richard O&#8217;Rawe&#8217;s book entitled Blanketmen: The Untold Story of the [...]


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