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		<title>Provo bosses let hunger-strikers die – they know who they are and so do I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Provo bosses let hunger-strikers die – they know who they are and so do I Suzanne Breen Sunday World An ex-Provo prisoner who watched his comrades die on hunger-strike has blasted the IRA leadership for their &#8220;needless deaths&#8221;. Richard O&#8217;Rawe says key IRA leaders should &#8220;hang their heads in shame&#8221; for rejecting a secret British [...]
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		<title>Richard O&#8217;Rawe speech in Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1981</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard O&#8217;Rawe, author and IRA Public Relations Officer during the 1981 Hunger Strike, addresses the Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee&#8217;s 30th anniversary commemoration on August 6th, 2011. Since Richard is not able to obtain a visa, this address was prerecorded. Related posts: Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration speech &#8220;Rusty Nail&#8221;: Announcement of Gasyard Meeting Gerry Adams [...]
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		<title>Underlying Slur in Morrison&#8217;s Hunger Strike Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2011/01/20/underlying-slur-in-morrisons-hunger-strike-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1981</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underlying Slur in Morrison&#8217;s Hunger Strike Comments Irish News letters page Terry Hughes I read with interest Danny Morrison’s recent article in the Andersonstown News about the 1980 hunger strike, which was led by my brother, the late Brendan Hughes. “Whether the republican leadership’s analysis and depiction of what was happening, was correct”, I do [...]
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		<title>UPDATED: Danny Morrison on the end of the 1980 hunger strike</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2011/01/07/danny-morrison-on-the-end-of-the-1980-hunger-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quotes from Danny Morrison, Brendan McFarlane, Laurence McKeown and Gerry Adams on the end of the 1980 hunger strike: Although it is now well-known that Brendan Hughes ended the hunger strike unilaterally, without consulting his O/C Bobby Sands, we on the outside finessed the sequence of events for the sake of morale and at a [...]
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		<title>Adams starved hunger strikers of the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2010/12/30/adams-starved-hunger-strikers-of-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1981</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adams starved hunger strikers of the truth Did the Sinn Fein president prolong the 1981 campaign to improve the party&#8217;s electoral prospects? Richard O&#8217;Rawe outlines the case for the prosecution Belfast Telegraph Thursday, 30 December 2010 In a recent column in the Belfast Telegraph, Eamonn McCann said of my 1981 hunger strike book, Afterlives: &#8220;O&#8217;Rawe [...]
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		<title>The Public and the Private</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Public and the Private Anthony McIntyre The Pensive Quill Richard O’Rawe has just published a new book. Its title is Afterlives and was launched in Belfast on Thursday evening. Due to last minute ‘ambushes’ I was dragged elsewhere and had to cancel my planned journey north. Much to my regret, because O’Rawe is a [...]
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		<title>Former IRA prison leader releases O&#8217;Rawe &#8216;comms&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2010/11/06/former-ira-prison-leader-releases-orawe-comms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former IRA prison leader releases O&#8217;Rawe &#8216;comms&#8217; by Barry McCaffrey Irish News Nov 6 2010 Former IRA prison leader Brendan &#8216;Bik&#8217; McFarlane yesterday produced secret &#8216;comms&#8217; (communications) which he claimed prove that republicans did not reject a British government deal to end the 1981 Hunger Strike. Earlier this week Richard O&#8217;Rawe, who was the IRA [...]
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		<title>Interview with Bik McFarlane, Derry Journal</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2010/10/26/interview-with-bik-mcfarlane-derry-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commemoration event in Sandinos tomorrow night Derry Journal Published Date: 26 October 2010 By Staff reporter The 30th anniversary of the first Long Kesh hunger strike will be marked in Derry tomorrow night at an event involving one of the key participants and the man who led the 1981 protest. Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Raymond [...]
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		<title>Radio Free Eireann interviews Ruairí Ó Brádaigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Partial Transcript of Radio Free Eireann Saturday November 14, 2009 @ 1:16:20 in the show. John McDonagh (John) of RFE interviews Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (ROB). John: Yeah, we&#8217;ll be getting back I guess&#8230;I had two questions but I&#8217;m gonna have to limit it to the one. And just sitting listening to Ruairi going through his [...]
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		<title>Thomas &#8216;Dixie&#8217; Elliott: &#8220;We got nothing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.longkesh.info/2009/11/10/thomas-dixie-elliott-we-got-nothing/</link>
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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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