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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>Side by Side: The July Offer and Ten Men Dead</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compare and Contrast Excerpt from David Beresford&#8217;s Ten Men Dead, where the 5 July offer is described on pages 292-294 (Formatted for clarity) The channel had been reopened by the Foreign Office in the wake of the conciliatory 4 July statement by the prisoners, in which they had insisted that their five demands could be [...]


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		<title>Ten Men Dead pgs 292-294: The offer described</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from David Beresford&#8217;s Ten Men Dead, where the 5 July offer is described on pages 292-294 &#8220;While the [ICJP] commissioners were occupying centre stage, at least in their eyes and those of the media, the hard bargaining was in fact going on in the wings. The Foreign office had relaunched the &#8216;Mountain Climber&#8217; initiative. [...]


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		<title>The July Offer: Statement by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The NIO has several drafts of this document on file, which differ only in minor detail. This was one which Thatcher authorised to be sent to the IRA on July 8th 1981. The letter from Downing Street to the NIO sent on that date (and on the Sunday Times website) describes it as as “a [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Rusty Nail&#8221;: 1981 Hunger Strike Truth Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, May 25, 2009 1981 Hunger Strike Truth Commission Rusty Nail at Slugger O&#8217;Toole Saturday evening’s meeting in Derry could be described as a grassroots Truth Commission &#8211; clearly, the public’s desire for truth and expanded knowledge of the events of the Troubles is overwhelming, enough so that people are not waiting for officialdom to [...]


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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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