target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_285762c9-5d08-553f-8f81-7ce825364691">119.Eolas, April/ May 1977, p.11.
120.See Des O’Hagan, Letters from Long Kesh (Dublin, 2012). O’Hagan’s twenty-two short articles were published by the Irish Times in 1972, arising from an agreement with its liberal editor Douglas Gageby. The collected edition did not appear until 2012. See Ultan Gillen, ‘Introduction’ in Ibid., pp. xi-xii. Earlier feuding between the Official IRA and the nascent INLA/ IRSP disturbed Belfast IRA men in England: ‘Is there not enough Irishmen being killed without them knocking each other off?’ Billy Armstrong to Leo Wilson, 10 March 1975, Private Collection (Wilson). Armstrong understood the tensions were caused by Official IRA inaction vis à vis ‘religious assassinations’ by British backed Loyalists. Ibid. Wilson had polled 4,000 votes in the South Antrim constituency of the October 1964 general election at which time Sinn Féin was banned in the Six Counties. Involved in the Civil Rights movement, he was a leading member with Clara Reilly and Fr. Brian Brady of the Association for Legal Justice in Belfast. See An Phoblacht, January 2014, p. 4.
121.Republican News, 3 March 1978.
122.Republican News, 3 March 1978.
123.Republican News, 22 April 1978 and IRIS, 17 February 1979. Forty-seven exclusion orders were issued between March 1978 and March 1979. HC Deb 21 March 1979 vol 964 cc1505–6. Dominic Behan, brother of Brendan and writer of ‘The Patriot Game’ rebel ballad, was among the more socially prominent people detained under the PTA in Liverpool. Irish World, 10 November 1979.
124.Republican News, 27 May 1978. Jim Reilly of the Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle represented the party in Leeds. Kaye and Alastair Logan participated in the Independent Public Enquiry into the abuse and torture of prisoners in Ireland, which convened in Dublin in May 1978. They described the workings of the PTA and the Irish prisoner experience in England. Ibid. Peoples Democracy claimed that by early 1978 Sinn Féin ‘remained ambiguous about the value of united work’ on prisoners and tended to recognize only groupings which supported the armed struggle. The RAC, closely linked to Sinn Féin, gradually excluded ultra-leftist political parities such as the Irish Workers Group which had demanded speaking rights at rallies without investing sufficient effort in the campaign. Ultimately, the PDs also ‘lost any formal position in the campaign’. See Prisoners of Partition, H-Block/ Armagh, A Peoples Democracy pamphlet, New edition, p. 12. See also IRIS, 24 March 1978.
125.See Jim Johnson, ‘Lessons of TOM’ in Hands off Ireland!, No. 1, December 1976, pp. 13–15. See also Workers Power, The British Left and the Irish War (London, 1983), p. 38. UTOM reverted to the TOM designation in 1979. Ibid.
126.Aly Renwick, 16 November 2007.
127.PAC News, June 1978. For the 1977 Marx commemoration in Highgate Cemetery see PAC News, June 1977.
128.PAC News, June 1978. Messages of support were received from Sean Mac Stiofain, Michael Mullen (General Secretary of the ITGWU), Frank McManus, Frank Maguire MP, Joan Maynard MP, Maureen Colquhoun MP, Eddie McAteer, Phil Flynn, Women and Ireland, Black Aid, UTOM, IRSP (Dublin), PROP, ICRA, RCG, IMG and Revolutionary Communist Tendency. Members of the Stagg, Gaughan, Dowd, Donnelly, McCaffrey, Fox, Nordone, Madigan, Butler, Campbell, Hackett, Mulryan, Armstrong, Kinsella, Norney, McLaughlin, Byrne, Coughlan, Gibson and Kelly families registered their approval. Republicans John Joe McGirl, Joe O’Neill (Bundoran Urban District Council), Vincent Conlon and Frank Glynn (Galway City Council) were also listed. Nancy Jenkinson, widow of Noel, and Mary Stagg, mother of Frank, joined members of Michael Gaughan’s family in expressing approval. Ibid.
129.BR Grange to DG Blunt, 21 November 1978, NAE, FCO 87/ 763.
130.‘Irish POWs Albany’ in PAC News, June 1978. Fr. Pat Fell and Hugh Callaghan remained on the wings in Albany. Ibid.
131.An Phoblacht, 22 April and 10 June 1978. See also IRIS, 31 March 1978, p. 3. Amnesty International refused to support repatriation and its view that convicted IRA personnel did not quality as ‘prisoners of conscience’ ensured very little attention was paid to their situation. IRIS, 28 April 1978, p. 4.
132.Republican News, 13 May 1978. London Sinn Féin activists Kevin Colfer and Tony Kearns highlighted the H-Block situation at a Kilburn meeting. The Michael Gaughan Cumman of Glasgow Sinn Féin also co-operated with RCG in Scotland. See Ibid., 1 July 1978. Ibid.
133.See Hands off Ireland!, No. 1, December 1976. Jim Reilly contributed and article to the May 1978 edition. David Yaffe, Frank Richards, Sheila Marston and Brian Mitchell were leading RCG members. See also Revolutionary Communist, Theoretical Journal of the Revolutionary Communist Group, No. 2, May 1975.
134.Times, 24 August 1978.
135.IRIS, 18 May 1978, p. 9.
136.PAC News, June 1978.
137.See Geoff Bell, British Labour and Ireland: 1969–97, Pamphlet, (London, 1979), pp. 29–35. Bell wrote from the perspective of the rival IMG.
138.Eddie Caughey, 16 September 2008.
139.Republican News, 10 June 1978.
140.PAC News, June 1978. See Anthony Coughlan, C. Desmond Greaves, 1913–1988: An obituary essay, Pamphlet (Dublin, 1991).
141.Irish Times, 12 October 1981.
142.Ciaran De Baroid, Ballymurphy and the Irish War, Revised Edition (London, 2000), p. 200.
143.Republican News, 17 June 1978. See also Bell, British Labour and Ireland, pp. 20–21.
144.See Fr. Desmond Wilson to the Editor, Irish People, 5 February 1983. See also Andrew Boyd, The informers, A chilling account of the Supergrasses in Northern Ireland (Dublin, 1984).
145.Keara O’Dempsey (President) and Albert Doyle (Vice President), Brehon Law Society, to Chief Justice Lord Lowry in Irish People, 19 September 1983.
146.Peter
