Price, Marian, 15; childhood, 10, 13; Belfast to Derry march (January 1969), 15–16, 22, 24; and Burntollet Bridge ambush, 24, 43, 151; joins Provisional IRA, 44; at training camp in the Republic, 47–8; as IRA courier, 48–9; smuggles explosives across border, 49; folklore about, 51; glamorous image of, 51–2, 199; as bank robber, 53; James Brown rescue mission, 53–4, 55–6; on MRF death list, 89; collects Adams from Long Kesh, 93; in the ‘Unknowns’, 104, 391; and London bombings (8 March 1973), 130–1, 132–3, 136, 137–8; arrested at Heathrow, 139–40; 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; hunger strike, 159, 167–78, 200–1; force feeding of, 170–1, 172, 174, 175–6, 200–1, 208; 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; draws back from republican movement, 199–200; suffers eating disorder, 200–1, 209; released due to severe eating disorder, 201; stops Morris interview with Dolours, 327, 329; declining health, 354, 355, 356, 392; and Real IRA, 354–5; in prison (2011–14), 355–7, 366; and the murder of Jean McConville, 390–2
Protestants in Northern Ireland: as majority population, 14; working class, 17; and attitudes on English ‘mainland’, 18; fear of being outbred by Catholics, 18; Orangemen, 18, 27, 28; radical tradition, 18–19; Derry in symbolic imagination of loyalists, 21, 28; Orange marches, 21, 28
Provisional IRA: ‘the chain’ (system for hiding weapons), 34, 61; formed (1969), 41, 203; war with Official IRA, 41, 64, 99, 100–1; bomb making, 42, 131; Price sisters join, 43–4, 45–7; fanatical secrecy in West Belfast, 44; Mac Stíofáin as chief of staff, 45–6; admits women as full members, 46; training camps in the Republic, 47–8; disciplined and ruthless image of, 48; women used as ‘honey traps’, 50; robbing of banks, 53, 64–5, 363; tarring and feathering as official policy, 60; D Company in West Belfast, 63–5, 66–8, 72, 79–80, 114–16, 317; call houses/arms depots in West Belfast, 67, 68, 70, 123–4; Armalite rifle, 68, 238, 322; Gerry Adams as ‘key strategist’, 70–1, 188–90, 192–3, 228; avoidance of internment sweep, 82; Kitson on death list, 88; ceasefire (June 1972), 93–4, 96–7; secret talks with government (July 1972), 93–6; targeting of commercial property, 97–9, 128–9; civilian casualties, 98, 128–9; Bloody Friday (July 1972), 98–9, 128–9, 231, 267, 268; court-martials, 102, 103–4, 118, 122, 325, 372, 374; the ‘Unknowns’, 103–4, 121, 130, 132, 205, 241, 274–5, 285, 347, 350, 387–8, 391; and Four Square Laundry, 119, 120; execution of informants, 122, 282, 283–5, 292–3, 304, 305, 307, 361; London bombings (8 March 1973), 127–8, 129–31, 132–45; Twomey escapes from Mountjoy, 148; ‘doomsday plan’, 164; and Price sisters’ hunger strike, 168; and the ‘long war’, 188–9, 192–3, 229; Adams’ ‘reinventing’ of, 190, 192–3; blanket and dirty protest, 191–2, 194; Northern Command created, 192; killing of off-duty prison officers, 194; H block hunger strikes, 194–6, 195, 201–2, 203–4, 207–8, 270, 271–4, 318–19; La Mon House hotel attack (February 1978), 199–200, 388; Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election (1981), 202–3, 218, 271–2; ballot paper and Armalite aphorism, 203, 218, 226–7, 233, 323; deaths of H block hunger strikers, 207–8; Hume on hypocrisy of, 226–7; Enniskillen bombing (November 1987), 227; Harrods bombing (December 1983), 233; Brighton bombing (October 1984), 233–4; broadcasting restrictions on, 240; ceasefire (1994–6), 243–4, 246–7, 252; ceasefire (1997), 252; decommissioning issue, 252, 259, 316; London Docklands bombing (1996), 252; internal security unit (Nutting Squad), 281–2, 304–5, 306–7, 377; response to issue of disappeared, 294–5, 296–7, 298, 325; Villiers report (2105), 369; support for in USA, 386
Qaddafi, Muammar, 372
Queen Elizabeth II (cruise liner), 68
Queen’s University, Belfast, 254, 257, 258
Quinsey, Mark, 353–4
Rawlinson, Sir Peter, 154–5, 156
Rea, Stephen, 135–6, 211–14, 212, 217–18, 242, 287; marries Dolours Price, 213, 217; Field Day theatre company, 213–15; in Maida Vale with Dolours, 215–17; children of, 239; as voice-over for Adams, 240; stars in The Crying Game, 241, 242; end of marriage to Dolours Price, 285; carries Dolours’ coffin, 366; in Cyprus Avenue at Abbey Theatre, 383–4
Rea, Winston Churchill, 380
Real IRA, 353–5, 385
Redgrave, Vanessa, 153
Reid, Father Alec, 219–21, 222–3, 314; and murder of Howes and Wood, 223–5, 225, 228; plan to end conflict, 225–6, 227, 228, 243; and fate of the ‘disappeared’, 246; as witness to decommissioning, 316
Republican News, 189, 203, 230
Richardson, Miranda, 241
Rooney, Patrick, 34–5
Ross, David, 194–5, 196, 274
Royal Ulster Constabulary: B-Specials, 19, 24, 29, 33, 34; as overwhelmingly Protestant, 19; and Burntollet Bridge ambush, 24; and 1969 unrest in Belfast, 29, 33; shooting of Patrick Rooney, 34–5; arrests Dolours Price, 52–3; Special Branch, 72, 114, 276, 309–10; and internment intelligence, 81; grudge against Adams, 230–1, 234, 339–40, 379–80; rebranded as Police Service of Northern Ireland, 259, 301; informants, 276–81, 282; collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, 308–12
Ruddy, Seamus, 246, 291
Russell, Joe, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104
Sands, Bobby, 186, 201–2, 274; hunger strike, 196, 202, 203–4, 206–7, 270, 271–2; Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election (1981), 202–3, 218, 271–2; death of (5 May 1981), 207–8, 272; Sinn Féin’s use of name/image, 288
Scappaticci, Alfredo ‘Freddie’, 281–2, 310, 311; exposed as ‘Stakeknife’, 306–7; arrest and release of (January 2018), 377; lawsuits against, 377–8
September 11 terrorist attacks, 270–1
Shaw, Sebag, 157–8
shipbuilding industry, 14, 25–6
Simons, Eugene, 291
Sinn Féin, 189, 203, 218, 227, 228, 229; Falls Road headquarters, 230; refashioning of as political outfit, 232–3, 272, 393–4; Parnell Square headquarters, 238–9; and 1994 ceasefire, 243–4; and fate of the ‘disappeared’, 247, 296–7; decommissioning issue, 252, 259, 316; and Hillsborough talks, 253; and Good Friday Agreement, 259, 261; narrative of the Troubles, 261–2, 318, 321, 371; shuns Brendan Hughes, 269; use of Sands’ name/image, 288; IRA members’ contempt for, 321; on ‘malign agenda’ of Belfast Project, 322; fortunes tied to those of Adams, 361–3; pro-Adams propaganda, 362–4
Smyth-Campbell, Jean, 87–8
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 226, 233
socialism, 17, 40, 56, 71, 238, 267, 269
South Africa, truth-and-reconciliation mechanism, 258–9
‘Stakeknife’, 303–4, 305–7, 309, 311, 376–7
Steele, Frank, 95–6
Stevens, Lord John, 312
Stone, Michael, 221–2
Storey, Bobby, 296–7, 362–4, 365, 369, 373
Stuart, Ted, 113–14, 120
Sunday Life, 328–9, 331, 336–7, 343
Thatcher, Margaret: views on Northern Ireland, 193–4; and H block hunger strikes, 202, 203–4, 207; appeals to over Dolours Price, 205–6; on death of Sands, 207; Dolours Price defies, 215–16; and Brighton bombing (October 1984), 233–4; ‘secret offer’ over H block hunger strikes, 271–2, 318–19; and collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, 309–10
The Times, 127–8, 138, 153
Titanic Studios, Belfast, 370
Tone, Wolfe, 19, 253
Trimble, David, 254
the Troubles: IRA as largely dormant at start of, 16–17, 40–1; outbreak of (summer 1969), 28–31; rising casualty figures (1969–72), 34; Falls Road curfew (July 1970), 35–6; fearless children during, 37–8; grandiose funerals during, 42; wartime siege mentality in Catholic neighbourhoods, 42; and evasive syntactical construction, 57; extreme anxiety (’Belfast Syndrome’) during, 58–9; 1972 as bloodiest year, 59; ‘wall of silence’ in West Belfast, 80, 111; unlicensed drinking clubs in Belfast, 99–101; and roma
ntic relationships, 101; ‘special category’ status issue, 191–2, 194; rioting (1981), 205–6; Sinn Féin narrative of, 261–2, 318, 321, 371; unsolved murders as open criminal cases, 312, 315; collective denial theme, 322, 387; past as big business for criminal justice, 375–6, 377–8; ‘whataboutery’ phenomenon, 379; see also the disappeared
Twomey, Carrie, 257, 273, 289, 317, 338, 343, 367, 382, 391–2
Twomey, Seamus, 94, 148, 239
Tyrrell, Áine, 359, 360, 362
Ulster Defence Association, 173, 222, 309–10
Ulster Freedom Fighters, 234–5
Ulster Unionist Party, 254
Ulster Volunteer Force, 321, 380
United States: civil rights movement, 14–15, 20; Selma to Montgomery march (1965), 14–15, 20; Irish Americans, 237–8, 386; ‘Noraid’ (Irish Northern Aid Committee), 238
Valliday, Thomas, 146, 148
Villiers, Theresa, 369, 371
Warke, Sarah Jane, 113–14, 120
Weir, Angela, 150–1
White, Raymond, 309–10
Whitelaw, William, 94–5, 124
Wilson, Peter, 291, 382
Winchester, Simon, 88
Winchester Castle, Great Hall of, 152–9
women: Cumann na mBan, 10–11, 45–6, 50; as full members of IRA, 46; as IRA couriers, 48–9; and iconography of revolution, 50; used as ‘honey traps’ by IRA, 50; folklore about Price sisters, 51; tarring and feathering punishments, 60; gendered media reporting of Price sisters, 153–4, 168
Wood, Derek, 223–5, 228
Wright, Kathleen, 114–15, 120–1
Wright, Seamus, 114–19, 120–1, 281, 291, 325, 327, 359; discovery of body (2015), 383
Yeats, W.B., 166–7
Young, William, 345, 351
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Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Snakehead and Chatter. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at the New America Foundation. A former Marshall scholar, he holds Master’s degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Yale. He lives in New York.
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