Hegarty, Frank, 282
Hickey, Ellen, 198
Hillsborough peace talks (April 1998), 252–3
Hindley, Myra, 290–1
Howes, David, 223–5, 225, 228
Huckerby, Martin, 127–8, 138, 143
Hughes, Brendan: as OC for D Company, 63–5, 72, 79–80, 114–16, 281; as soldier, not politician, 64, 71, 189, 236–7, 238–9; British hunt for, 65, 73, 123–4; quoting of Mao, 66, 80; MRF murder attempt, 66–8, 70, 72–3, 87; and the Armalite rifle, 67–8, 238; background of, 68–70; as peerless tactician, 70, 147, 186, 195; and Gerry Adams, 70–3, 71, 123–4, 150, 186–7, 189–90, 192, 236–7, 265–6, 305, 317; avoids internment sweep, 82; on MRF death list, 89; and 1972 ceasefire, 96–7; marriage to Lily, 97, 236; targeting of commercial property, 97–9; and Bloody Friday (July 1972), 98–9, 231, 267, 268; and Joe Russell shooting, 99–101, 102; and the Unknowns, 103, 274; Wright and McKee as triple agents, 114–16, 118–19; immunity promise to Wright and McKee, 115, 118, 121, 122; and Four Square Laundry, 119, 120, 123; arrest and interrogation of (July 1973), 123–4; in Long Kesh, 124, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191–2, 194–6, 195, 273–4, 367–8; on bomb making, 131; on London bombings, 144, 322; escape from Long Kesh, 146–50, 161–2; Arthur McAllister alter ego, 160–1, 162–4; second arrest of, 160–1, 163–4; wiretaps British army headquarters, 162–3; refuses to become informer, 164; return to Long Kesh, 186–7; and blanket/dirty protest, 191–2; hunger strike, 194–6, 195, 273–4, 367–8; and Father Reid, 220, 226; released from Long Kesh (1986), 236; trip to America (1986), 237–8; as left behind by history, 238–9, 265, 266, 269, 394; return to frontline IRA service, 238–9; and Anthony McIntyre, 263, 266–7; Belfast Project interviews, 263, 267–70, 273–5, 283–5, 297, 332, 358, 365, 367–8; break with Gerry Adams, 263, 265–6, 267–70, 297, 317; lives in Divis Flats, 264–7, 266, 314; hatred for Good Friday Agreement, 265, 267–70; health and alcohol problems, 265, 266, 273, 317, 326, 367; tortured introspection of final years, 267–9, 273–4, 329–30, 367–8, 395–6; sense of moral injury, 268–9, 329–30, 394, 395–6; shunned by Sinn Féin, 269; and McConville abduction, 275, 283–5, 297, 328, 331, 332, 334–5, 336, 357, 374–5; worries about spies, 305; visits Cuba, 317; death and funeral of (2008), 317–18; admires O’Rawe’s Blanketmen, 320; Moloney’s Voices from the Grave, 321–4; PSNI subpoena demands interview tapes, 337, 338–41
Hughes, Kevin, 65, 69–70, 97
Hughes, Terry, 317
Hume, John, 226–7; secret meeting with Adams (11 January 1988), 227–8; and Clinton’s Derry speech, 251
hunger striking tradition, 166–8, 194–5
informers (touts), 276–85, 303–8, 376–7; as reviled by republicans, 80, 256, 276, 347–8, 364–5; IRA execution of, 122, 282, 283–5, 292–3, 304, 305, 307, 361; Hughes refusal, 164; tout narrative over McConville, 275, 283–5, 294–5, 331–5, 347–9; Gerry Adams on, 276, 307; ‘Stakeknife’, 303–4, 305–7, 309, 311, 376–7; loyalist, 309–12; ‘Boston College Touts’ graffiti, 364, 364–5
intelligence and espionage: informants, 80, 256, 276–85, 292–3, 303–8, 309–12, 347–8, 364–5, 376–7; IRA execution of informants, 122, 282, 283–5, 292–3, 304, 305, 307, 361; state knowledge of Adams assassination plot, 234–5, 310; and Trevor Campbell, 276–81, 282; Belfast as small city, 277, 279; communication with informants, 277–8; Provo internal security unit (Nutting Squad), 281–2, 304–5, 306–7, 377; Castlereagh break-in by thieves, 301–3, 307, 363; ‘Stakeknife’, 303–4, 305–7, 309, 311, 376–7; state collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, 308–12, 378; Boutcher investigation into Stakeknife, 376–7
International Criminal Court, 111–12
internment: August 1971 sweep, 80–1, 82–3; directed at only Catholics, 80–1; and Frank Kitson, 81–2; official end of (late 1975), 190–1
Ireland, David, Cyprus Avenue, 383–4
Irish Free State, 12
Irish National Liberation Army, 193–4
Irish News, 325, 326–8, 329, 331, 346, 359
Irish People, 231
Irish Press, 210
Irish Republican Army (IRA): and Albert Price, 10, 16; as largely dormant in late 1960s, 16–17, 40–1; Chrissie Price stores weapons for, 39; Border Campaign (1956–62), 40; sells weapons (1968), 40; split (1969), 41, 203; war between two factions, 41, 64, 99, 100–1; USA as source of support, 238; disappearances during War of Independence, 299; see also Official IRA; Provisional IRA
Irish republicanism: Price family commitment to, 9–11; Easter lilies, 11, 41, 180; Pearse’s blood sacrifice, 11–12; informers (touts) as reviled, 80, 256, 276, 347–8, 364–5; history of noble failure, 187–8; tradition of political ‘abstentionism’, 202–3, 218, 229; commodification of martyrs, 237, 288; absolutist aspect of, 243, 261; disillusionment after Good Friday Agreement, 265, 267–70; armed struggle sanitised and reified, 269; armed splinter groups, 287, 353–4, 385
Irish Times, 210–11, 358, 369
Irish War of Independence, 12, 299
Jackson, Alvin, 393
Jenkins, Roy, 172, 173, 176, 177, 178–9, 208
Jordan, Neil, 241
Keenan, Tara, 288
Kelly, Gerry, 130, 132, 138, 166, 168, 173, 179, 366
Kenwood House, Hampstead, 174
Kenya, Mau Mau uprising, 74–7, 116, 117, 347
Kerry, John, 343
Khaled, Leila, 50, 154
King, Dr Martin Luther, 14–15
Kipling, Rudyard, ‘Ulster’, 18
Kircubbin, De La Salle Boys’ Home, 182–4
Kitson, Frank: in Kenya, 74–7, 76, 116, 117, 347; ‘counter-gang’ concept, 76, 116–18, 276; colonial insurgencies from 1957, 77; Low Intensity Operations, 77–8, 79, 85–6, 88; hearts and minds concept, 78; commands 39 Airportable Brigade, 79; quoting of Mao, 80; and internment, 81–2; and the MRF, 86–7, 276; as maestro of press manipulation, 88; on Provo death list, 88–9; at Bloody Sunday inquiry (2002), 378; lawsuit against (2015), 378
Kitson, Lady Elizabeth, 378
Knupfer, Geoff, 290–1, 382–3
Leahy, William, 338, 344
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 379
Libya, 372
Lisburn, 78
Lisnevin ‘training’ school, 184–5, 244
London bombings (8 March, 1973), 142; telephone warning to The Times, 127–8, 133–4, 138, 143–4; Old Bailey bomb, 128, 133, 136, 138–9, 141–4, 150–1, 154; planning of, 128–31, 132; Gerry Adams and, 129–30, 274, 322; Dolours Price as OC, 130–1, 133, 134–6, 143–4, 322; cars used in, 132; implementation of plan, 132–4, 136; British Army recruiting centre bomb, 133, 141; British Forces Broadcasting Service bomb, 133, 141; New Scotland Yard bomb, 133, 136–7; leisure activities on eve of, 134–6; police response on morning of, 136–8; police tipped off about, 137–8; arrests at Heathrow, 139–40; bombers blame casualties on police, 143–4; bombers refuse prison uniforms, 144–5; Mansfield as Prices’ defence lawyer, 151–2, 154, 155, 157; trial at Winchester Castle, 152–9
Long Kesh: building of, 82; opening of, 92–3; in Irish republican imagination, 93; Adams and Hughes arrive at (July 1973), 124; Gerry Adams in (1973–7), 124, 147, 186–90; Hughes’ escape from, 146–50, 161–2; ‘cages’ at, 186; Hughes returns to, 186–7; H Blocks, 187, 191–2, 194, 201–2; blanket and dirty protest, 191–2, 194; hunger strikes, 194–6, 195, 201–2, 203–4, 207–8, 270, 271–4, 318–19, 367–8
loyalist paramilitaries, 173, 222, 234–5, 309–10, 321, 380; and Belfast Project, 258, 321, 323, 338, 340, 380; collusion with British authorities, 308–12, 378; murder of Pat Finucane, 310–11; informers, 309–12
Lynskey, Joe, 54, 99, 101–2, 103–6, 241, 286, 291; Adams and disappearance of, 325, 326–7, 328, 359; not on list of disappeared, 325; search for body of, 382–3
Mac Stíofáin, Seán, 45–6, 129, 131; secret talks with government (July 1972), 94, 95, 229; announces end of ceasefire (July 1972), 97
MacIntyre, Darragh, 359
Mackin, Desmond, 100–1
MacSwiney, Terenc
e, 167, 168, 169, 178, 207
Maguire, Frank, 202
HMP Maidstone, 90–1, 270, 361; ‘Magnificent Seven’ escape from, 91–2
Malaya, 77
Mansfield, Michael, 150–2, 154, 155, 157
Mao Zedong, 66, 77, 80
Mason, Roy, 194
Massereene Barracks murders (7 March 2009), 353–4
McAleese, Mary, 355
McAllister, Arthur, 159
McArthur, Wilson, 258, 323, 338, 340, 344
McCann, ‘Big Joe’, 65–6
McCann, Eamonn, 22, 56–7, 254, 358; friendship with Dolours Price, 17, 51–2, 156, 211, 286, 320–1, 326, 367; graveside oration for Dolours Price, 367
McClory, John, 291, 293
McClure, Pat, 103, 129, 130–1, 274, 285, 347, 348, 350, 387–8, 391
McConville, Agnes, 27, 107–9, 108, 181, 294, 300
McConville, Anne, 5, 27, 181, 245
McConville, Archie, 6–8, 27, 59–60, 110, 111, 181, 294, 294; arm broken by Provo youth wing, 60–1; identifies mother’s body, 314
McConville, Arthur, 26, 26–8, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 295; death of, 5, 38, 58
McConville, Billy, 5, 6, 27, 108, 108, 294, 296; taken into care, 181, 183–4; at De La Salle Boys’ Home, 183–4; death and funeral of (2017), 384–5
McConville, Helen, 27, 58, 61, 107–8, 108, 109, 294, 300; at takeaway during mother’s abduction, 6, 62; and mother’s first abduction, 61, 62; at Nazareth Lodge orphanage, 181, 184; marries Seamus McKendry, 184; at Linen Hall Library press conference (1995), 244, 246; plans funeral of mother, 296; Adams visits (1995), 297; demands arrest of Adams and Price, 337; civil suit against Adams, 385
McConville, Jean, 26; abduction of (December 1972), 5–8, 62, 107–8, 110–12, 275, 283–5, 289, 294–5; early life of, 25–6; marries Arthur, 26–7; lives at Avoniel Road, 27, 28; driven out of East Belfast home, 30–1; anxiety over children during Troubles, 37; depression after husband’s death, 58–9; in Purdysburn psychiatric hospital, 59; suicide attempts, 59; helps wounded British soldier, 59–60, 295, 332, 336; declines ‘the chain’, 61; abducted and beaten, 61–2, 334; media coverage of disappearance, 107–9; Gerry Adams and abduction/murder of, 275, 284–5, 296–7, 322, 328, 337, 350–1, 365, 374–5; tout narrative, 275, 283–5, 294–5, 331–5, 347–9; Price’s role in disappearance of, 285, 289, 296–7, 327, 328, 329, 334, 336–7, 347–51; search for body of, 293–6, 300; discovery of body (2003), 313–14; funeral of, 314, 314; murder of as still open criminal case, 315; on list of disappeared, 325; O’Loan report on death of (2006), 331–3, 334–6; timeline of disappearance, 334–6; PSNI subpoena to Boston College, 343–5, 379–80; murder of, 349–50, 387–8, 389–90; arrests over abduction/murder, 352, 357–8, 360–2; trial of Ivor Bell, 371–2, 373–4, 375, 385; cited ‘ideal victim’ of the Troubles, 379
McConville, Jim, 5, 6, 27, 108, 110, 294; taken into care, 181, 183–4; at De La Salle Boys’ Home, 183–4; adult life, 244, 294, 296
McConville, Mary (Granny), 26–7, 31, 108–9, 181
McConville, Michael (Mickey), 27, 108, 294; childhood, 28, 32–3, 35, 36–8, 60, 61, 108, 110, 111, 181–6; asthma of, 61; stabbed in the leg by IRA youths, 111; realises mother is dead, 112; taken into care, 181, 182–3; at De La Salle Boys’ Home, 182–3; at Lisnevin ‘secure’ facility, 184–5; leaves Lisnevin, 185–6, 244; adult life, 244–5, 295, 296, 300, 396; meeting with Adams, 297; rejects idea of mother as informer, 332, 333–4; requests meeting with Price, 337; and menace of Big Bobby’s words, 363–4; civil suit against Adams, 385
McConville, Robert, 27, 58, 59, 181, 294
McConville, Susan, 27, 181, 294
McConville, Tucker, 27, 108, 108, 181, 182–3
McCoy, Eugene, 292–3
McDonald, Mary Lou, 392
McFarlane, Bik, 319
McGrory, Barra, 375, 378
McGuigan, Francie, 44, 82–4, 85, 147
McGuigan, John, 83, 85
McGuigan, Mary, 82–3
McGuinness, Martin, 94, 233, 255, 259, 362–3; and informants, 282; shakes Queen’s hand, 355–6; death of, 393
McIlhone, Danny, 291
McIntyre, Anthony (Mackers), 257–8, 270–1, 317, 318, 322, 332–3; secrecy over Belfast Project, 258, 261, 262–3; disillusioned by peace process, 261, 262, 285; record-keeping in Belfast Project, 262–3, 345, 373–4; and Brendan Hughes, 263, 266–70, 283–5; friendship with Dolours Price, 285, 287, 288–9, 329; The Blanket magazine, 287; and access to Project archive, 323, 324; and PSNI subpoena, 338, 339, 340, 341–6; menaced over Belfast Project, 364, 365; and Ivor Bell trial, 374; criticism of PSNI, 380–1, 382; records his own oral history, 381–2
McKee, Billy, 41, 69, 241
McKee, Kevin, 116–19, 121–2, 281, 291, 325, 327, 359; trauma suffered by mother of, 298–9; discovery of body (2015), 383
McKee, Maria, 298–9
McKendry, Seamus, 184, 244, 245, 247, 297, 298
McKenna, Sean, 195–6, 273
McKinney, Brian, 291, 293
McKinney, Margaret, 245–6, 293
McLarnon, William, 154
McMillen, Liam, 41
McNearney, Roisin, 130, 133, 134, 155–6, 157–8, 159
McShane, Roy, 281
McVeigh, Columba, 246, 291
Megraw, Brendan, 291
Metropolitan Police, London, 136–7
Milltown Cemetery murders (1988), 221–2
Milton, Frederick, 143
Mitchell, senator George, 252
Molloy, Eamon, 291, 292–3, 298–9
Moloney, Ed, 254–7, 258, 260, 267, 272, 319, 340; A Secret History of the IRA, 255; and Anthony McIntyre, 257–8, 262; Voices from the Grave, 321–4, 331, 341, 344; and access to Project archive, 323, 324, 344; and Barnes’ Sunday Life article, 328–9; believes McConville to be informer, 332, 333; and PSNI subpoena, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341–6, 380; interviews with Dolours Price, 346–52, 361, 365, 387–8, 389–90; and Ivor Bell trial, 374; attacks PSNI for bias, 380
Moors Murders, 290–1
Morris, Allison, 326–8, 329, 346
Morrison, Danny, 189, 203, 322–3
Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 193
MRF, 86–8, 89, 276; attempt to murder Hughes, 66–8, 70, 72–3, 87; Palace Barracks compound, 89, 115–16; the ‘Freds’, 116–19, 281; massage parlour in Antrim Road, 119, 120; as behaving like terror group, 309
Murray, Monsignor Raymond, 213, 366
Nairac, Robert, 246, 291
Neave, Airey, 193–4
Nelson, Brian, 309–11
New York Times, 339, 387
Northern Bank robbery (2004), 363
Northern Ireland: as ‘North of Ireland’ to republicans, 12; rituals of commemoration, 12; anti-Catholic discrimination in, 14; Catholic emigration, 14; devolved political system, 14; Belfast to Derry civil rights march (January 1969), 14–16, 17–20, 21–3; Special Powers Act, 19, 80–1; arrival of British Army (1969), 33; direct rule imposed (March 1972), 57; tranquilliser use in, 58; Price sisters returned to, 179–80; Villiers report on paramilitaries (2105), 369, 371; as a still divided society, 369–71; long-run demographic issues, 394; implications of Brexit, 395; see also Belfast; Derry; the Troubles
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, 107
Notarantonio, Francisco, 311–12
Ó Conaill, Dáithí, 94
Ó Fiaich, Tomás, 206
O’Doherty, Malachi, 393
Official IRA: ‘Stickies’ label, 41, 58; war with Provisionals, 41, 64, 99, 100–1; murder of ‘Big Joe’ McCann by Army, 65–6; shebeens in Belfast, 100–1
O’Flaherty, Liam, The Informer, 275
O’Hanlon, Fergal, 122
O’Loan, Nuala, 331–3, 334–6
O’Neill, Bob, 262, 324, 338, 339, 340–1, 345, 351, 373; planning of Belfast Project, 254, 257, 258; writes preface for Voices from the Grave, 321; lack of support on campus, 344
O’Neill, Terence, 18
O’Rawe, Ricky, 270–3, 318–19, 321, 364; Blanketmen, 319–20
Orde, Hugh, 354
Paisley, Ian, 18, 20–2, 28, 135, 209, 234, 255, 356
Partition, 12
Pearse, Patrick, 11–12, 16, 243, 261
People’s Democracy, 17, 19
pigeons, 37, 396
Pinochet, Augusto, 291
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), 259, 301, 337, 339–40, 351–2, 379–80; Belfast Project subpoenas, 337, 338–46, 379–80, 381–2; ‘legacy’ unit, 375–6; and McIntyre (Mackers), 380–2
Price, Albert, 9–10, 16, 40; prison terms, 12; provides guns for IRA, 43; on murdered British soldiers, 56; avoids internment sweep, 82; at trial of Dolours and Marian, 156; supports Dolours and Marian’s hunger strike, 173, 176, 177
Price, Chrissie, 9–10, 21, 24, 45, 47; prison term, 10–11; stores weapons for IRA, 39; accompanies Dolours to Castlereagh, 52–3; at trial of Dolours and Marian, 156; supports Dolours and Marian’s hunger strike, 173, 176; appeals for return of stolen Vermeer, 174; death of, 180
Price, Clare, 10
Price, Damian, 10
Price, Dolours, 15; personality of, 9, 15–16, 210, 242, 285–6, 367; childhood, 9–10, 12–13, 16; Belfast to Derry march (January 1969), 15–16, 17, 22, 23, 24; youthful questioning of armed struggle, 16–17; and Burntollet Bridge ambush, 23, 24, 43, 135, 151, 347; carries IRA weapons, 39; on wartime siege mentality, 42; further education of, 42–3, 49; joins Provisional IRA, 43, 45–7; Mac Stíofáin on, 45; at training camp in the Republic, 47–8; as IRA courier, 48–9; rejects ‘honey trap’ operations, 50; and ‘rebel chic’, 50–1, 153–4, 156; folklore about, 51; glamorous image of, 51–2, 52, 156, 326; dashing outlaw fantasy, 52, 53, 56, 57; arrested by RUC, 52–3; as bank robber, 53; interrogated at Castlereagh, 53; James Brown rescue mission, 53–4, 55–6; and Gerry Adams, 54–6, 71, 93, 287–8, 296–7, 318, 325–30, 350–1, 358, 365, 374–5; speaks in Milan (March 1972), 57; and Brendan Hughes, 64, 71; avoids internment sweep, 82; on MRF death list, 89; on Joe Lynskey, 101–2, 326–7; drives Lynskey to his death, 103–4, 105–6, 241, 286, 328; in the ‘Unknowns’, 103–4, 121, 205, 241, 274, 285, 347, 350, 387–8, 391; and 1972 ceasefire, 104; delivers Wright and McKee for execution, 121, 298; and London bombings (8 March, 1973), 128, 129–31, 132, 133, 134–6, 137–8, 274, 322; and Stephen Rea, 135, 211, 212, 212, 213, 215–17; arrested at Heathrow, 139–40; blames London casualties on police, 143–4; in custody after London bombings, 144–5; mug shot of, 152; trial at Winchester Castle, 152–9; gendered media reporting at trial of, 153–4; in Brixton Prison, 159, 165–6, 167–78, 200–1, 210–11; hunger strike, 159, 166, 167–78, 200–1, 367–8; force feeding of, 169–71, 172, 174, 175–6, 200–1, 208; appeals for return of stolen Vermeer, 174–5; art thefts and kidnapping in cause of, 174–5; end of hunger strike, 179; returned to Northern Ireland, 179–80; in Armagh jail, 197–200, 199, 204–6; draws back from republican movement, 199–200, 204–5, 210–11; embraces nonviolence, 200, 205, 211, 218; resigns from IRA, 200, 211; suffers eating disorder, 200–1, 204, 205, 206–7, 209, 210, 285; appeals to Thatcher over, 205–6; in Musgrave Park Hospital, 206–7; released ‘on medical grounds’ (April 1981), 207, 209; and death of Sands, 207–8; moves to Dublin, 209–10; as writer and journalist, 210–11, 240, 286, 287, 320, 325; marries Stephen Rea, 213, 217; and Field Day theatre company, 214–15; in Maida Vale with Rea, 215–17; continued support for republicanism, 218; children of (Danny and Oscar), 239, 286, 287, 327, 366, 367, 368; Miranda Richardson on, 241; in New York with Rea (1992), 242; and 1994 ceasefire, 243; disaffection after Good Friday Agreement, 285, 286–8, 354; end of marriage to Rea, 285; role in McConville’s disappearance, 285, 289, 296–7, 327, 328, 329, 334, 336–7, 347–51; suffers PTSD, 286, 320, 346; tortured introspection of final years, 286–7, 320–1, 325–7, 329–30, 347–51, 367–8, 395–6; sense of moral injury, 286–7, 329–30, 395–6; Belfast Project interviews, 288–9, 328–9, 345–52, 358, 361, 365, 387–8, 389–90; and ‘Stakeknife’ rumours, 304; at Hughes’ funeral, 317, 318; alcohol and drug addiction, 320–1, 365–6; impulse to set matters straight, 326–8; Morris’ article on the disappeared, 326–8, 329, 331, 346; treatment at St Patrick’s Hospital, 327, 346; PSNI subpoena demands interview tapes, 337, 338–41, 342–6; murder of Jean McConville, 349–50, 374–5, 387–8, 389–90; ‘Free Marian Price!’ campaign, 355; on Northern Bank robbery, 363; death, funeral and inquest of (2013), 366–8; New York Times obituary, 387
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