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		<title>&#8220;Rusty Nail&#8221;: Prolonging the Hunger Strike: The Derailing of the ICJP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 17, 2009 Prolonging the Hunger Strike: The Derailing of the ICJP Rusty Nail at Slugger O’Toole   In addition to last week’s expanded timeline, two interesting articles originally in the Washington Post in 1981 have been added to the new hunger strike archive: Break Seen In Ulster Jail Crisis and 5th IRA Hunger [...]
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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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		<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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