target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_4f45798c-a3ff-5bff-b303-11a67a0efd7d">16.Socialist Challenge, 2 March 1978.
17.Republican News, 11 March 1978. Litterick suffered a heart attack in March 1977 at a time when his comments on the Irish community of Birmingham being harassed under the PTA and description of Prince Phillip as a ‘useless, arrogant parasite’ was deemed to warrant police protection. Irish World, 26 March 1977.
18.See Alastair Logan to the Editor, Guardian, 25 March 1978.
19.Guardian, 27 July 1978.
20.Times, 26 March 1983.
21.Prior Report, I, p. 3. See also Prior Report, II, pp. 129–30.
22.Cited in Prior Report, I, p. 2.
23.Cited in Prior Report, I, p. 2.
24.Cited in Prior Report, II, p. 19.
25.Prior Report, I, p. 3.
26.Prior Report, II, p. 35. See also Prior Report, I, p. 3.
27.Irish Times, 10 May 1978.
28.Prior Report, I, p. 14.
29.Prior Report, II, p. 132.
30.Walmsley, Special Security Units, pp. 22–23.
31.Walmsley, Special Security Units, pp. 22–23.
32.Cited in Republican News, 11 February 1978.
33.Republican News, 11 February 1978 and EC Zeeman, ‘Catastrophe Theory’ in Scientific American, April 1976, pp. 65–83. Ray Mitchell of the Prison Service College and Dai Curtis of the Officers’ Training School were Wakefield-based members of the Prison Service Journal’s Review Committee. See PSJ, No. 33, New Series, January 1979, p. 17. University of Southampton sociologist Roy King, a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales, noted ‘it is no accident that the worst prison troubles in living memory have occurred in the dispersal prisons … extreme security actually provokes trouble’. Times, 14 March 1978.
34.See Edward O Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (New York, 1975) and Catherine Driscoll, ‘Sociobiology’ in The Standford Encylopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.standford.edu/archives/win2013/entries/sociobiology.
35.HC Deb 8 June 1978 vol 951 c207W.
36.Clarke to Kilbracken, 28 January 1978, MS draft letter, Clarke Papers (COFLA). Kilbracken renounced his British citizenship after Bloody Sunday in 1972. He was later in direct contact with leading Provisionals John Joe McGirl in Leitrim and Ruairi O’Bradaigh in Roscommon. Kilbracken condemned the death of Frank Stagg on hunger strike in 1976 and was persuaded by republicans to maintain his opposition to the PTA rather than resigning from the House of Lords. Saoirse, February 2012, p. 15. See also Irish Times, 25 November 1977.
37.Sunday Tribune, 27 May 1984.
38.Clarke to Kilbracken, 28 January 1978, MS draft letter, Clarke Papers (COFLA). Sr. Clarke had recently received news from visitors to Sean Smyth and from Wally Heaton. Ibid.
39.PAC News, August/ September 1977
40.Hibernia, 16 December 1977.
41.John Kilbracken to Fr. [Denis] Faul, 23 January 1978 Clarke Papers (COFLA). See also Disturbance in D Wing, p. 15.
42.Kilbracken to Faul, 23 January 1978 Clarke Papers (COFLA). Longford had been disconcerted by the IRA attempt on the life of his son-in-law, Hugh Fraser MP on 22 October 1975. Fraser supported the death penalty and narrowly missed being killed on the day that the Guildford Four were wrongly convicted. See Clarke, No faith, pp. 93–4 and Moysey, Balcombe Street, pp. 108–9.
43.See Lieutenant-Colonel HEC Willoughby, ‘Family life in Northern Ireland’, Typescript (Victoria Barracks, Windsor, 12 November 1975). The document was endorsed: ‘This leaflet contains information on various aspects of family life in Northern Ireland as it is expected to apply to the 2nd B[attalio]n Coldstream Guards which will start an 18 month tour in September 1976 at Ebrington Barracks, London[d]erry [sic]’. Ibid.
44.Clarke to Kilbracken, 28 January 1978, MS draft letter Clarke Papers (COFLA). See also Merlyn Rees, Northern Ireland, A Personal perspective (London, 1985).
45.HL Deb 7 February 1978, cc922–3.
46.Gerry Cunningham, 25 September 2007.
47.AP/RN, 29 July 1982. McLaughlin commented: ‘When we explained to the English prisoners the nature of British imperialism in Ireland and that we were not-as the British gutter press daubed us- “mindless terrorists” out to kill innocent British civilians, they were able to see for themselves the victimization of republican prisoners by the prison administration’. Ibid.
48.Hugh Doherty, 23 June 2006.
49.Alison Liebling, ‘Prison Officers, Policing and the Use of Discretion’ in Theoretical Criminology, 2000, Vol. 4, p. 341.
50.Eddie O’Neill, 23 June 2006.
51.Republican News, 28 January and 4 February 1978. Niall Fagan, who had been present on Bloody Sunday,
