hook to scale the inner fence. Dick Callan, Gartree, The story of a prison (Leyhill, 2005), p. 44.
239.Ronnie McCartney, 12 April 2008.
240.Irish political prisoners, p. 92.
241.Irish political prisoners, p. 92 and Times, 8 July 1978.
242.Republican News, 5 August 1978.
243.Irish Times, 7 July 1978. Dianah Jeffrey, Stacey Charlesworth, Sandra Lester and Stephanie Pugsley were arrested. Ibid.
244.Faul and Murray, H Block, p. 114.
245.Republican News, 22 July 1978. In late 1978 Logan was National Convener of the International Tribunal on Britain’s Presence in Ireland. See Faul and Murray, H Blocks, pp. 117–18 and Irish Times, 7 December 1978. Logan delivered a minibus acquired by Luton area Sinn Féin for the use of prisoners’ families in Ireland. The vehicle had been repaired having been badly vandalized by police ‘looking for something’. Michael Holden, 23 June 2008. The history of Gartree prison recorded many minor incidents in 1978 but not the IRA protest that rated discussion in the Commons. See Callan, Gartree, pp. 44–5.
246.Irish World, 12 March 1977. See also Irish Press, 28 February 1977.
247.Times, 8 July 1978.
248.Michael Holden, 23 June 2008. See also Irish World, 24 April 1976.
249.Irish Post, 2 September 1978.
250.Republican News, 24 June 1978.
251.Republican News, 24 June 1978. Other marching delegations included Harringey Trades Council and the NUJ Book Branch. Ibid. See also Hands off Ireland!, No. 5, September 1978, p. 3.
252.FRFI, September 1982, p. 11.
253.Republican News, 22 July 1978. Kaye of the PAC, Jim Reilly of Sinn Féin spoke at Hyde Park, as did representatives of the RCG and UTOM. A message from Daithi O’Connell was read. Ibid.
254.Republican News, 30 September 1978. The issue advertised the first edition of the re-formatted PAC News. Ibid. See also PAC News, No. 1, August/ September 1978.
255.Irish World, 15 July 1978.
256.Irish Times, 10 July 1978.
257.Irish Times, 10 July 1978. Redgrave, narrator of the film ‘The Palestinian’, attended its Belfast premier in Turf Lodge on 30 July. Republican News, 29 July 1978.
258.McLaughlin, Inside an English jail, p. 45. See also IRIS, 13 July 1978, p. 6.
259.Republican News, 29 July 1978. See also FRFI, September 1982, p. 11.
260.Republican News, 22 July 1978.
261.Ronnie McCartney, 12 April 2008, Irish political prisoners, p. 92 and Martin Brady, 10 April 2008. A busload of supporters was en route to Gartree when they learned the roof protest had finished. Republican News, 29 July 1978.
262.Sr. Clarke, ‘Gartree’, Clarke Papers (COFLA).
263.Irish political prisoners, p. 94. Mick Sheehan, the only other IRA prisoner in Gartree in July 1978, was too physically ill to participate in the roof top demonstration. By escaping punishment he was in a position to smuggle tobacco, matches and newspapers to his comrades in the Punishment Block. See Hayes (ed.) In prison in England, p. 23.
264.Sr. Clarke, ‘Jerry Mealy’, Clarke Papers (COFLA). Mealy had received ‘open’ visits in Gartree. Sr. Clarke, ‘Albany’, Clarke Papers (COFLA).
265.Irish Times and Times, 10 July 1978.
266.Armstrong to Wilson, 27 September 1978, Private Collection (Wilson).
267.McLaughlin, Inside an English jail, p. 45. McLaughlin recalled: ‘I was given a towel to wrap around me but no blanket. My bed was removed from the cell between 6.00 a.m. and 8.00 p.m. The only time that I was allowed out of the cell was at 7.00 a.m. to slop out. During the weeks that I spent on the blanket, I never talked to another prisoner and only very infrequently to the screw. When my wife visited me in October she informed me that there was no support among the other POWs throughout England for a sustained blanket protest. So I decided to come off the protest’. Ibid., pp. 45–6.
268.Wakefield IRA PRO to editor, Irish News, 13 November 1978. See also Irish News, 8 September 1978.
269.Republican News, 5 August 1978.
270.Report of the work of the Prison Department, 1978, p. 26.
271.Report of the work of the Prison Department, 1978, p. 26.
272.Republican News, 26 August 1978.
273.Irish World, 26 August 1978. See also Ibid., 2 and 30 September 1978.
274.IRIS, 1 September 1978, p. 2.
275.Faul and Murray, H Blocks, p. 44. Nine Articles of the Convention were identified as having been transgressed (3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 18). These included breaches on ‘degrading treatment’, ‘impartial tribunals’, ‘freedom of association’ and utilization
