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by Patrick Radden Keefe


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  Adams, Gerry, 55; background of, 54–5, 94, 187, 359–60; and Dolours Price, 54–6, 71, 93, 287–8, 296–7, 318, 325–30, 350–1, 358, 365, 374–5; personality of, 55, 96, 186–7, 218, 228, 232, 240, 359–60; itinerant lifestyle of, 56, 97, 186, 255; avoidance of direct violence, 70–1, 228, 237; as ‘key strategist’ in IRA, 70–1, 188–90, 192–3, 228; and Brendan Hughes, 70–3, 71, 123–4, 150, 186–7, 189–90, 192, 236–7, 265–6, 305, 317; Catholicism of, 71, 187, 220; as ‘top IRA man’ in Belfast, 72, 93, 96, 229–30, 268, 269, 321–2, 358–9, 361; on MRF death list, 89; interrogation and imprisonment of (March 1972), 90–1, 92–3, 361; counter-interrogation techniques, 91, 361; released from Long Kesh (1972), 93, 229, 297; secret talks with government (July 1972), 93, 94, 95, 96, 229; marries Colette, 97; the ‘Unknowns’ answer directly to, 103, 274–5, 285, 350–1; and Four Square Laundry, 119, 120, 123, 359; arrest and interrogation of (July 1973), 123–4; in Long Kesh (1973–7), 124, 147, 186–90; and London bombings (8 March 1973), 129–30, 274, 322; embraces political strategy, 188–9, 192–3, 203, 218, 229, 232, 232–3, 272, 393–4; and the ‘long war’, 188–9, 192–3, 229; philosophy of the conflict, 188–90, 192–3, 203; articles in Republican News, 189, 230; released from Long Kesh (1977), 189–90; ‘reinventing’ of IRA, 190, 192–3; refusal to renounce violence, 193, 231, 233; on death of Sands, 207; MP for West Belfast (1983), 218, 221, 229, 232, 235; and Father Reid, 220, 226; and Milltown Cemetery murders (1988), 221–2; at funeral of Kevin Brady, 222–3; secret meeting with Hume (11 January 1988), 227–8; denials of IRA membership, 229–31, 237, 259, 268, 269, 274, 287, 297, 329–30, 361, 393; refashioning of persona, 229–32, 233, 253, 255, 393; paradox/ambiguity of emerging persona, 230, 253, 260, 272–3, 319, 363–4, 393, 394; calibrated sophistry of, 231, 247, 260, 297; and Brighton bombing (October 1984), 233–4; attempted murder of (spring 1984), 234–5, 310; sidelines Seamus Twomey, 239; Rea as voice-over for, 240; and disappeared issue, 246–7, 296–8, 325, 326–7, 358–9, 360–1, 365; visa to visit USA, 251; and London Docklands bombing (1996), 252; and Good Friday Agreement, 253–4, 261; speech at grave of Wolfe Tone (1998), 253–4; and Ed Moloney, 255; sell-out accusations against, 255, 261, 265, 268, 269, 325; ‘They haven’t gone away, you know’ soundbite, 260, 363; ignorance of Belfast Project, 262; Brendan Hughes’ break with, 263, 265–6, 267–70, 297, 317; and moral responsibility, 268–9, 297, 329–30, 396; as free of painful introspection, 269, 330, 396; and prolongation of H block hunger strikes, 271–3, 318–19; and abduction/murder of McConville, 275, 284–5, 296–7, 322, 328, 337, 350–1, 365, 374–5; on informers, 276, 307; Price’s contempt for, 287, 288; meetings with the McConvilles, 297; at Hughes’ funeral, 317–18; and O’Rawe’s Blanketmen, 319; reacts to Voices from the Grave, 322; refers to ‘trauma’ suffered by Hughes and Price, 322, 329–30; and Lynskey’s disappearance, 325, 326–7, 328, 359; arr
ested in relation to McConville case, 352, 357–9, 360–2; sexual abuse allegations in family of, 359–60, 362; Sinn Féin’s fortunes tied to, 361–3; dismisses Villiers report (2015), 369; Ivor Bell’s plot against, 372; McConville case dropped by prosecutors, 375, 385; McConville family’s civil suit against, 385; alleged job-offer to McConville shooter, 389, 390–1, 392; retirement of, 392–3; Twitter account, 393; on ‘outbreeding strategy’, 394; on implications of Brexit, 395

  Adams, Liam, 359–60, 362

  American Civil Liberties Union, 343

  Angleton, James Jesus, 304, 305

  Angry Brigade, 150–1

  anorexia, 200–1, 204, 205, 206–7, 209, 210

  Argentina, 291

  Armagh jail, 197–200, 199, 204–5

  Armstrong, Charlie, 291

  Armstrong, William, 130

  Atkins, Humphrey, 200, 203–4, 209

  Azimkar, Patrick, 353–4

  Barnes, Ciarán, 328–9, 343

  BBC, 107–8

  Behan, Brendan, 41

  Belfast: Divis Flats, West Belfast, 5–8, 32–3, 34–5, 36–7, 59–60, 62, 107–12, 181, 264–7, 314, 331–4; Andersonstown, 9, 42; Shankill Road, 17, 28, 40; geography of, 25, 42; Harland & Wolff shipyard, 25–6; Luftwaffe bombing of (1941), 26; ethnic geography of, 27, 28–30, 40; outbreak of rioting (summer 1969), 28–31; relocations of Catholic population, 30, 31, 41, 60; modernist redevelopment, 32–3; Falls Road curfew (July 1970), 35–6; Falls Road, 40, 42, 64; ‘peace walls’, 40, 369–70; St Mary’s Teacher Training College, 43; Bloody Friday (July 1972), 98–9, 128–9, 231, 267, 268; unlicensed drinking clubs, 99–101; McConville children alone at St Jude’s Walk, 107–12; Nazareth Lodge orphanage, 181–2, 184; Musgrave Park Hospital, 206–7; Clonard Monastery, 219–21, 227–8; Sinn Féin headquarters on Falls Road, 230; Deanes restaurant, 257, 258; Boston College Touts graffiti, 364, 364–5; bustling centre of, 370

  Belfast Project: setting up of, 254–8; absolute secrecy, 258, 260–1, 318, 324, 344; and loyalist paramilitaries, 258, 321, 323, 338, 340, 380; interviews, 261, 262–3, 267–75, 283–5, 288–9, 297, 318, 328–9; McIntyre’s record-keeping, 262–3, 345, 373–4; Dolours Price interviews, 288–9, 328–9, 345–52, 358, 361, 365, 387–8, 389–90; Moloney’s Voices from the Grave, 321–4; secret of revealed, 321–4; Sinn Féin’s reaction to, 322; Morrison requests access to tapes, 322–3; ambiguity in conception of, 323–4; history department’s view of, 323–4, 344–5; and Barnes’ Sunday Life article, 328–9; PSNI subpoena, 337, 338–45, 379–80, 381–2; legal status of confidentiality agreements, 340–1; Big Bobby’s threat to interviewees, 364; ‘Boston College Touts’ graffiti, 364, 364–5; Boston College loses forms, 373–4; Ivor Bell’s interview, 373–4; McIntyre’s own oral history tape, 381–2

  Bell, Ivor, 93, 94, 284, 357, 365, 371–4, 375, 385

  Bew, Paul, 254, 256, 257, 258

  Blair, Tony, 252

  Bloody Sunday (January 1972), 56–7, 135, 259, 378

  Blyth, Ian, 171

  ‘bog people’, 299

  Boston College, USA, 1–2, 254–5, 256–8, 260–1, 262, 267, 321, 344, 387; Burns Library, 1–2, 254–5, 256–8, 262, 328–9, 344, 346, 351; Morrison requests access to tapes, 322–3; history department’s view of Project, 323–4, 344–5; ignorance of Belfast Project’s existence, 323–4; and Barnes’ Sunday Life article, 328–9; PSNI subpoena, 337, 338–45, 379–80, 381–2; gives Brendan Hughes interviews to PSNI, 341, 342; gives McConville material to PSNI, 351–2; loss of Belfast Project forms, 373–4

  Boston Globe, 339

  Boutcher, Jon, 376–7

  Bradley, Gerry, 321

  Brady, Ian, 290–1

  Brady, Kevin, 222–3

  Brady, Martin, 132, 133

  Brexit (2016), 395

  British Army: arrival in Northern Ireland (1969), 33; at top of Divis Tower, 33, 264; gun battles with Catholic snipers, 34; patrols in Belfast, 34; use of tear gas, 35, 36, 79; Falls Road curfew (July 1970), 35–6; behaviour towards Catholics, 35–7; clandestine observation posts in Belfast, 37–8, 73; soldiers murdered by paramilitaries, 41, 56; attacks on IRA members, 65–6, 68, 73; killing of ‘Big Joe’ McCann, 65–6; surge in troop numbers in Northern Ireland, 78; nature of Northern Ireland deployment, 78–9; 39 Airportable Brigade, 79; Hughes wiretaps headquarters of, 162–3; Gibraltar shootings (6 March 1988), 219, 221; handheld radios, 283, 331, 332–3, 333, 334–5; collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, 308–12, 378

  Brixton Prison, 159, 165–6, 167–74, 210–11

  Brockway, Fenner, 198–9, 200, 204–6

  Brown, James, rescue from hospital, 53–4, 55–6

  Bunting, Ronald, 17–19, 20, 22, 24, 135

  Bunting, Ronnie, 18–19

  burial rites, 291

  Burntollet Bridge ambush (January 1969), 22–4, 23, 43, 135, 151, 347

  Bush, George W., 86

  Cahill, Tom, 123

  Cameron, David, 312

  Campbell, Trevor, 276–81, 282, 301, 333

  car bombs, 127–8, 129, 131–4, 154

  Castlereagh interrogation center, 52–3, 278, 301–3, 307, 363

  child abuse, 182–4, 359–60, 362, 384

  Chile, 291

  Clinton, Bill, 251–2, 253, 296

  Clinton, Hillary, 343

  Collins, Eamon, 322

  Coogan, Tim Pat, 206

  Corden-Lloyd, Ian, 104

  Corrigan, Peter, 373, 374, 375

  counter-insurgency: Kitson in Kenya, 74–7, 116, 117, 347; ‘counter-gang’ concept, 76, 116–18, 276; Low Intensity Operations (Kitson), 77–8, 79, 85–6, 88; lack of solid intelligence on IRA, 79, 80, 88; brutal treatment of IRA detainees, 83–6; Hooded Men, 83–6; ‘interrogation in depth’ techniques, 84–6; cultivation of sources in paramilitaries, 114–18, 276–81; British moulding of leaderships, 268; Force Research Unit (FRU), 310, 311–12; see also informers (touts); intelligence and espionage; MRF

  The Crying Game (Neil Jordan film, 1992), 241

  Cuba, 265, 317

  Cumann na mBan, 10–11, 45–6, 50

  Curtis, Elizabeth, 127–8

  Cyprus, 77

  Daily Mirror, 153–4

  Deane, Seamus, 214

  Derry: Guildhall, 20, 135, 214, 251–2; siege of (1689), 21, 28; Apprentice Boys marches, 28; Battle of the Bogside (1969), 28; Bloody Sunday (January 1972), 56–7, 135, 259, 378; Bill Clinton speech in (1995), 251–2

  Devlin, Bernadette, 23, 171, 367

  the disappeared: trauma suffered by families, 107–12, 245–7, 291, 298–9, 385; lack of police investigation, 110; gossip and rumours, 111, 121, 245, 294; act of disappearing as crime against humanity, 111–12; blue ribbons as symbols of remembrance, 244, 246; Linen Hall Library press conference (2005), 244, 246; families’ desire for grave to go to, 245, 291, 292, 296; families push for answers, 245–7; and Father Reid, 246; Gerry Adams’ response to issue, 246–7, 296–7, 325, 326–7, 358–9, 360–1, 365; and Sinn Féin, 247, 296–7; Gerry Adams’ involvement in McConville case, 275, 284–5, 296–7, 322, 328, 337, 350–1, 365, 374–5; Provisional leadership’s decision-making over, 283–5, 360–1; list of names, 291; Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains, 291–6, 313, 327–8, 382–3; search for bodies of, 291–9, 300, 313, 382–3; and members of the clergy, 292–3; Provisional IRA response to issue, 294–5, 296–7, 298, 325; Gerry Adams and, 296–7, 325, 326–7, 328, 359, 361; Wave (‘cross-community’ trauma center), 298; Morris’ article on, 326–8, 329, 341, 346; see also Lynskey, Joe; McConville, Jean

  Dolan, Bridie, 12–13, 45, 131, 180, 288, 346–7

  Dolan, Granny, 10, 45, 346–7

  Donaldson, Denis, 303, 307

  Dorfman, Ariel, 291

  Dublin: British embassy set fire to (February 1972), 57; Dolours Price moves to, 209–10; Sinn Féin headquarters on Parnell Square, 238–9; Abbey Theatre, 383–4

  the Dubliners, 173

  Dundalk, 72, 73, 99, 161, 349–50

  Durham Prison, 179

 
Easter Rising (April 1916), 11–12, 48

  Elizabeth II, Queen, visit to Ireland (May 2011), 355–6

  Enniskillen bombing (November 1987), 227

  Ervine, David, 321

  European Court of Human Rights, 86

  Evans, Gerard, 291

  Farrar-Hockley, Anthony, 84

  Farrell, Mairéad, 219, 221

  Feeney, Brian, 321

  Feeney, Hugh, 48–9, 104, 130–1, 132, 134–5, 136, 388; arrested at Heathrow, 139–40; in custody after London bombings, 145; trial at Winchester Castle, 154, 158, 159; hunger strike, 166, 168, 173, 179; at funeral of Dolours Price, 366

  Fenton, Joe, 305

  Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election (1981), 202–3, 218, 271–2

  Field Day theatre company, 213–15

  Finney, Albert, 135

  Finucane, Pat, 310–11

  Flags and Emblems Act, 12

  Force Research Unit (FRU), 310, 311–12

  Four Square Laundry, 113–14, 119, 120, 123, 359

  Free Wales Army, 40

  Friel, Brian: The Freedom of the City, 135–6; and Field Day, 213–14; Translations, 214

  Game of Thrones (television show), 370

  Garland, John, 313

  Gaughan, Michael, 178

  Gibraltar shootings (6 March 1988), 219, 221

  Good Friday Agreement (April 1998), 253, 254; absence of mechanism for dealing with the past, 258–9, 312, 375, 377–9; ‘power sharing’ arrangement, 259; Brendan Hughes’ hatred of, 265, 267–70; Dolours Price’s hatred of, 285, 286–8, 354; clauses on criminal justice, 312; implications of Brexit, 395

  Graham, Mark, 147

  Great Famine (nineteenth century), 168–9

  Green, John Francis, 147

  Guevara, Che, 16, 17, 77, 265, 317

  Haass, Richard, 370

  Hachey, Tom, 260, 321, 324, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 344

  Hamilton, Mark, 376

  Harris, Drew, 375

  Heaney, Seamus, 214, 251–2, 299; ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’, 259

  Hearst, Patty, 50

  Heenan, Mary, 378

 

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