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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 25 Nov 2011 - Brendan Duddy&#8217;s Mountain Climber notes added; quote from John Blelloch 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 [...]
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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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		<title>1981: 5th IRA Hunger Striker Dies Before Settlement Reached</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 1981 21:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 8, 1981, Wednesday, Final Edition 5th IRA Hunger Striker Dies Before Settlement Reached BYLINE: By Leonard Downie, Jr., Washington Post Foreign Service DATELINE: LONDON, July 8, 1981 (Wednesday) Convicted Irish Republican Army terrorist Joe McDonnell died this morning after refusing food for 61 days after it appeared that mediators were near achieving a settlement [...]
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		<title>1981: British and IRA Prisoners Appear Ready To Move Toward Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 1981 20:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 5, 1981, Sunday, Final Edition Break Seen In Ulster Jail Crisis; British and Ira Prisoners Appear Ready To Move Toward Agreement; British, Prisoners Modify Conditions For Settling Dispute BYLINE: By Leonard Downie Jr., Washington Post Foreign Service DATELINE: LONDON, July 4, 1981 Both the British government and imprisoned Irish nationalist hunger strikers in British-ruled [...]
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