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(light dramatic music)

(car engine rumbling)

- [Radio Announcer] Radio
One News at 10 o'clock

with Michael Murphy.

- [Michael] Good morning, Gardai
County Louth have recovered

the body of a man
believed to be murdered

by the IRA more
than 20 years ago.

They body is thought
to be the first

of a number of the
so-called Disappeared

whose whereabouts the IRA
is preparing to disclose.

The man's remains were in
a coffin that was found

about seven o'clock this morning
at Old Faughart Graveyard,

about four miles
north of Dundalk.

The coffin is thought
to have been taken there

from another location
during the night.

Gardai haven't yet formally
identified the victim.

(dramatic music)

(phone ringing)

(dramatic music)

(woman panting)

(light dramatic music)

- [Ed] Let's start talking

about your family history
and republican background.

Tell me about your
mother, your father,

your aunts and the sort
of Republican influences

that came up as you
were growing up?

- I come from a strong, very
staunch Republican background

on both sides.

On my father's side, I
had a very religious aunt

who would have said,
for God and Ireland.

On my mother's side, Ireland
came first, came before God.

In 1939 when the IRA very
grandly declared war on England

my father and some of
his comrades went over

as the expeditionary force

to wage war on the
Imperial master.

- [Announcer] A scene of
havoc in Broadgate, Coventry.

The crowded thoroughfare was
suddenly plunged into turmoil

and confusion as a
violent explosion

swept bystanders off their feet.

Five people were killed
and nearly 60 injured.

The cause is attributed
again to IRA agents.

- My father's two
mates were arrested

and they actually didn't
have anything to do

with that particular operation
but they were convicted

and executed for it.

So as children growing
up that's the kind of

bedtime story we would hear.

We wouldn't hear Little Red
Riding Hood, we would hear

they hanged my mate Jimmy.

As children, we looked
forward to these nights

when he'd gather us round

and tell us about
his time in prison

- The time was fast
approaching, a lad lay sentenced

for to die and on
the 2nd of September

he meets his God on high.

Now he's walking
to the scaffold,

head erect he shows no fear,

for on his proud and
gallant shoulders,

Ireland's cross
he holds so dear.

Now the cruel blow is fallen,

for Ireland he has
fought and died,

and we the countrymen
who bore him,

will love and honor
him with pride.

Brave Tom Williams we salute
you, and we never will forget,

those who planned
your cruel murder,

we vow to make them all regret.

So come all you Irish rebels,

if from the path
you chance to stray,

bear in the memory of the morn,

when Ireland's cross
was proudly borne,

but a lad who lay within
these prison walls.

- My father spent
seven years altogether

interned in different prisons
but he never was charged.

He often said, I blew
them up before you did,

the only thing was
I didn't get caught.

We had the great honor of
having had three generations

of women in my family
spend time in Armagh Gaol.

We would have, as
children, been aware

that my aunts had a
dedication to the prisoners,

create parcels for them
on special occasions

which, as children, we
were always very envious of

and I think it made
me begin to think

prison wasn't all that
bad a place to be.

You got these cakes
and bars of chocolate

and you got all sorts
of wonderful stuff

if you were in prison.

(dramatic music)

- [Terence] Here in
Ulster, the Union Jack

is the flag of freedom
and my task, my duty,

my resolve are to keep it
hoisted at the top of the mast,

here in our beloved Ulster.

(crowd applauds)
(dramatic music)

- The Catholic population
in my growing up time

were very down-trodden people,

and very accepting of their
second-class citizenship.

Whereas we, as Republicans had
a kind of strange arrogance,

because we believed that
we were the possessors

of the truth, the absolute
truth about how the island

should be run and we
believed ourselves

to be the custodians
of the men of 1916,

and we, in many ways
regarded ourselves as elite.

We were a very angry
people actually

the runt of Republicans that
were left behind in Belfast

because we always
regarded the fact

that when they signed
away the 6 counties,

they actually signed us away.

(upbeat music)

♪ Hear it, hear it,
hear my heartbeat ♪

- Dolours be a good girl,

your aunt Bridie's
ready for tea now.

♪ Pounding, pounding
like a drum ♪

♪ Louder, louder,
goes my heartbeat ♪

♪ As nearer, and nearer,
and nearer you come ♪

♪ So hurry, hurry,
says my heartbeat ♪

♪ Take me, touch
me, make me thrill ♪

♪ Faster, faster,
goes my heartbeat ♪

♪ I try but I cant
keep it still ♪

- My aunt Bridie was
an inspiration to us.

Bridie was a living martyr
and as children growing up

we were always
very aware of this,

of the enormous sacrifice
that she had made

because of her part
in the struggle.

In 1938, she went
to lift an arms dump

and the volunteer who
was to lift the dump,

and she was to be his
escort, didn't turn up.

She decided herself
that she would lift

the arms dump and she did.

(dramatic music)

It exploded on her and
her hands were blown off,

her eyes were blown out and
she was very badly mutilated

and she looked like that
for the rest of her life.

She was 25 and my grandmother
put the house into mourning,

the girls weren't
allowed to go dancing,

it was like having a wake
but with a living body.

She was a smoker and as
children once you got to be

eight or nine you had to be
able to hold the cigarette

for her and put it to her
mouth and take it away

and I hated the job, I thought
it was the most awful job,

I couldn't stand it, but I
did it because it was Bridie.

The fact that she was in
the state that she was in

and the condition she was
in obliged me in some way

to continue the struggle because
it validated her sacrifice

and to have ignored the
struggle would have been

to make her sacrifice
futile, useless.

(dramatic music)

I went in one day and I could
see these great big tears

rolling down her cheeks
and I went to my mother

and I said, Mummy, how
can my Aunt Bridie cry

when she has no eyes?

And my mother burst into tears
and said, "My poor sister",

and it was really a very,
very touching, touching moment

and as a child I can
remember her how much pain

actually there was in
that family that they hid,

that was concealed
by this strength,

this Republican strength
that they maintained.

As a family they didn't cry.

We were too strong to cry and
to cry was a sign of weakness.

♪ We shall overcome we
shall overcome, some day ♪

- I would have still been
a sixth-former at school,

doing my A-levels and
we would go regularly

to the student meetings
and we would take part

in the debates and
the discussions as
to what we could do,

to bring about civil
rights, one man one vote,

one family one house
and all of the slogans

that we had gathered,

because I had often
debated with my father,

that this is the way that it
would change and he would say,

oh, you'll learn, you'll
learn as you grow up,

and I'd say, no I have
learnt, I've learnt that

you didn't win the war,
you fought the war in 1940,

yous didn't win, this way
we can change the system.

(crowd chanting in
foreign language)

♪ We shall overcome some day ♪

♪ For deep in my heart ♪

(people screaming)

- Please, God save us. (screams)

(crowd shouting)

- [Dolours] October 5th
happened, the RUC were seen

in their true light as being
a very sectarian police force.

Things were becoming
more polarized.

I think as Republicans we
began to see a glimmer of light

that there could be a change.

♪ We shall overcome ♪

♪ We shall overcome some day ♪

- [Dolours] We had long
debates about the only way

to change the system was
to unite the Protestant

and the Catholic working class

against the Imperialist system.

- Well I think it's been
very successful so far,

we've had a very good turnout.

Now we've had some
difficulties along the route

and there have been times
we've been prevented

from going through,
we don't like that,

but we feel that that
demonstrates the fact

that in Northern Ireland
we have a situation

like the Southern States of
America where you do not have

the basic democratic
liberty of free procession.

- This march flew
its proper flag

into an outlawed
Republican club banner

and this unmasked this march
as nothing what-so-ever

to do with civil rights but
simply an outlawed rebel march.

- [Dolours] We were marching
along to Derry being stopped

at every Protestant town
and being turned back

and re-routed and eventually
ending up at Burntollet Bridge.

We did get a kind of warning

that it wasn't
going to be peaceful

or be allowed to be peaceful.

- There is a good
possibility that some stones

may be thrown, some
people may be hurt.

- [Dolours] The gathered
Loyalists stockpiled stones

to throw at us and they had
their cudgels with nails in them

and they had all their weaponry.

Clearly the police saw them
there and the police led us

into the trap.

We were massively decimated.

- We had to get into the
water, and they came after us,

we tried to go up the back
field to get away from them,

they surrounded us in the back,
we were stuck in the water,

we waded in and out of the
water for half a dozen times

up to our waists, and
they all battered us

and they took a fella
singly and they battered him

and then they came for another
fella and they battered them,

and not one policeman in
sight opened the gates, jeez!

- It was at that point I
think, I looked into the eyes

of some of these people
who were beating us,

and they were glazed over
with some kind of hate,

and I thought to
myself I thought, no,

that person is never going to
want to walk alongside of me.

I'm never gonna
convert those people.

(soft dramatic music)

It changed me entirely.

It brought me back round
towards Republicanism.

The Northern state was rotten.

Change wouldn't be brought
about by us marching

up and down the road or being
hammered into the ground.

(crowd shouting)

(explosions booming)

(fire roaring)

My Aunt Kathleen was
burnt out of Dover Street,

my Aunt Evelyn was burnt
out of Percy Street.

The B-Specials, Loyalists
and RUC brought out the guns

and began to shoot down
towards the Falls Road

and we didn't have any guns,
but we suddenly realized

there were no guns to
protect the community.

- They machine gunned us.
- All those people.

- [Reporter] Did you shoot back?

- What with,
peashooters and bottles?

Armored cars paving the way
for hooligans to come in?

- We found out that
the young Fianna boy,

Gerald McCauley had been
shot dead and I think also

the little boy in Divis
Towers had been shot dead,

the young child of
I think he was nine.

And so we realized
it was quite serious.

There was a lot
of gunfire coming

and we were dodging
bullets and I decided

I'd make my way home,
nothing else to do

except stand around
and wait to be shot

and when I arrived
home to our house

there were sitting
the leadership of the
Republican movement

of the day, Bobby McKnight,
Billy McMillen, Jimmy Sullivan,

and they were sitting
in our house, my house,

waiting for their
transport to take them

across the border to Dundalk.

And I remember thinking, you
cowards, you're running away

and the people of the
Falls Road are now,

are being burnt out, being
shot at, being murdered,

and that would have been a time

when I would have been
turning against them

and I would have been
looking for leadership

in a different direction.

(soldiers shouting)

- Boys, d'you want a cup of tea?

- There you are love,

that's for after your
lunch or after your dinner.

- Thank you very much,
appreciate it, thank you.

- The honeymoon period cannot
continue forever obviously.

We're perhaps at the peak
now, everybody is smiling

and swapping cups of tea and
all this sort of business

and cracking jokes but
unless there is a solution,

or some hope for the future,

the soldiers are not going to
be welcomed on the streets.

(dramatic music)

(crowd shouting)
(glass shattering)

- [Reporter] Two men have
died in rioting in Belfast

after a big round up of
suspects this morning

which was followed by
an official announcement

that there's to be internment.

- I have decided,
after consultation

with Her Majesties Government
in the United Kingdom

last Thursday, to
exercise where necessary,

the powers of detention
and internment vested in me

as Minister of Home Affairs.

(people shouting)

- [Dolours] The place was in
upheaval, but the strange thing

was that the local people
had suddenly changed

and they had suddenly
become Republican.

- Protestant extreme
organization are shooting over

into the Catholic areas
and being protected,

protected by the British
army, and then they tell you,

oh, if you complain about
us or say about this,

its only IRA propaganda.

Now, wait til I tell you
something, everybody around here

don't need to be an IRA man,

but they'll definitely
support it now!

- [Dolours] Young boys who
were out throwing stones

were pulled in to have
cups of tea handed to them

and sticky buns and back
out to throw more stones

and there was a sea change

within the thinking of
the Catholic population.

♪ If you hate the British
army clap your hands ♪

♪ If you hate the British
army, hate the British army ♪

♪ Hate the British
army clap your hands ♪

(people shouting)

- I suppose that was the seeds
of the Provisional movement

coming along and the seeds
of people who had been,

not really politically inclined,

becoming politically
inclined because of necessity

and they began to look to
republicans as protectors.

(dramatic music)

I, Dolours Price, promise
that I will promote

the objects of the
Irish Republican Army

to the best of my knowledge and
ability and that I will obey

all orders and
regulations issued to me

by the army authority and
by my superior officer.

That was basically it.

I put my hand up, I
made that declaration

and I was a member of the IRA.

You had spent your life
learning this as a way of life

and you had spent
your life being taught

that it was a
glorious way of life,

and it was a proud and
honorable way of life.

When I reported to the army
and said I wanted to join,

I said, I don't want
to be rolling bandages,

that's not what I want
to do, I want to fight,

they put me in a room with
a load of rusty bullets

and some steel wool, and my
job was to clean these bullets.

That incensed me, but I did it.

I obeyed all orders.

(light music)

One of my jobs was to
transport explosives

from Dundalk to the
Battalion areas.

I would travel to Dundalk,
sometimes twice a day,

certainly four or
five times a week

and have my car loaded
up with explosives.

- [Ed] Where were the
explosives hidden?

- [Dolours] In the door panels.

We robbed a couple of banks,

once we went in dressed as nuns.

I'm withdrawing funds on behalf

of the Irish Republican Army.

And he said to me, I need
to see your credentials?

Here's my credentials, now
we'll do this really calmly.

Just open the safe and
fill the little bag

and we'll all get this
done very quickly.

I would hire a car
using a fake license

that I had been given.

I got so familiar to the
soldiers on the border

that they knew me
by my first name.

- [Ed] They knew you as Dolours?

- They knew me as Rosie,
no Rosie was my fake name

on my driving license,
on the fake license.

I found it so much easier
than you would imagine

and I think that probably comes

from the recklessness of youth.

We were young we
were very idealistic,

we were very dedicated.

When we carried out
operations like that,

we did it in a
remarkably calm way.

(crowd shouting)

(somber music)

(explosion booming)
(glass shattering)

- One has just got to be
blunt, almost brutal at times

at telling you your wife
has lost both her legs.

Your young son has been
killed in an explosion.

This is the sort of situation
which we're faced with

almost daily in this hospital.

Taking a father to the morgue
to identify his only child,

who is unidentifiable
following an explosion.

- [Man] Marion?

- The IRA in Belfast was divided

into three operational
areas, the First, the Second

and the Third
Battalions, or Batts,

as they were usually called.

On top of all three
Battalions, was the Brigade,

headed by the Brigade Commander.

Each Battalion also had a
Commander with his own Staff.

- Cock, check that there's
nothing in the breach

- The Brigade Commander
was in charge of the IRA

in all of Belfast
and he, never a she,

reported to the
IRA's Chief of Staff.

(dramatic music)

- [Ed] It seems to
be about that time

that this special squad called
The Unknowns was set up,

what can you tell me
about The Unknowns?

The Unknowns, they were
supposed to be unknown people

who were trustworthy, dedicated,
had their wits about them

and could be trusted
with very specific jobs

and obeying orders
without question.

I was selected to
be one of them.

There would have
been 12 or 13 in all.

- [Ed] Was there a
Commander of The Unknowns

and to whom did he report

and from whom did
he get his orders?

- Well Pat McClure
would have been one of

the immediate commanders
within the squad

and they would have reported
back to the Officer Commanding

in Belfast who would
have been Gerry Adams.

(dramatic music)

They came away very willingly
because they had been told

they were going for
a break, a holiday.

Occasionally volunteers who
were stressed would be sent away

and given time off and
taken across the border

to spend a few weeks somewhere.

They were generally in
holiday mood, I just,

I mean I had to bring
them across the border

and leave them there.

I believe they hung out with
the local unit for a while,

that they had some
fun with them,

they were taken to
pubs and they did have

some kind of break.

Ultimately I believe
they were shot.

We believed that informers

were the lowest
form of human life.

They were less than
human and death was,

was too good for them.

- [Reporter] The widowed mother
of 10 children was kidnapped

last December, from her home
here in the Divis Flats complex

on Belfast's Lower Falls Road.

On the evening of December 7th,
four women entered the home

of Mrs Jean McConville,
told her family

that their mother would be
returned in half an hour,

and then left with her.

Helen, when did you
last see your mother?

- On the 7th December '72.

- [Reporter] Before this did
she give you any idea at all

as to why she was
going to go away?

- No.

- [Reporter] Where do
you think she is gone?

- I dunno.

- [Dolours] This where
it gets dangerous for me.

- [Ed] Yes okay.

It's one of these areas we
were talking about before okay,

so we're going to handle
this very carefully

but I need to know the facts.

- [Dolours] Jean McConville
was identified as an informer,

her house, her flat in Divis
Flats had been discovered

to have had a transmitter
where she was supposedly

passing information over
to the British Army.

She was also observed
by some volunteers

who were taken into
Hasting Street Barracks

to be identified by a person
concealed behind a blanket.

- [Ed] And what
actually happened,

where was she, was she with you?

- She was behind the blanket,

she was concealed behind a
blanket with a slit in it

that she could see through

and the blanket stopped
short of her feet.

- [Ed] And that's how she...

- And some of the
volunteers who went through

that identification process
recognized the slippers.

When Cumann na mBan arrested
her, and questioned her

she made an
admission to the fact

that that's exactly what
she had done for money.

She was ordered to be
taken across the border

to be taken away and in her case

the verdict was, again, death.

Our first contact with her

was to just pick
her up in the house.

- [Ed] And was
again, Pat McClure.

- [Dolours] Pat and myself
and another volunteer

took her and we went with
her across the border.

She having told
everything believed

that she was being taken
away by the legion of Mary.

- [Ed] Where did she
get that idea from?

- [Dolours] She was told that.

- [Ed] By you?

- [Dolours] Yes.

And it was only at that
stage that I realized

even that she had children.

- [Pat] All right,
chips for everybody?

- [Dolours] And she talked a lot

and she was very arrogant.

- My children, they
will be brought to me?

- Yes I'm sure they will be.

- Will they give me money,
will they get me a house?

- Well I imagine so.

- I knew those Provo bastards

wouldn't have the
balls to shoot me.

- [Dolours] And at
one point she said,

"I knew those Provo bastards

"wouldn't have the
balls to shoot me."

And the Provo bastards
who were driving her

thought oh, wouldn't they?

Which was unfortunate for
her, she talked too much.

She was left in Dundalk
with the Dundalk unit

and stayed with
them for some days.

- [Ed] But I understand
that the Dundalk IRA

didn't want to do it?

- [Dolours] They didn't
want to do it, no.

- [Ed] So you guys had
to do it, is that right?

- [Dolours] Yeah.

They couldn't bring
themselves to execute her,

probably because
she was a woman.

- [Ed] What actually
happened that day?

- There had been a grave
dug by the Dundalk Unit

and she was taken by the
three volunteers to the grave

and shot in the back of the
head by one of the volunteers

and then the other two
volunteers each fired a shot

so that no-one would say
that they for certain

had been the person to kill her.

She was left in the grave and
the local unit buried her.

- [Ed] They covered
up the grave?

- Yeah.

(somber music)

- [Ed] There are
those who regard the
disappearing of people

as a war crime, do you
think its a war crime?

- I think its a war crime yes.

I think its a war crime.

It had never before been done

within the Irish
Republican Army.

I certainly advocated and
said that it was nonsense,

that informers
should be thrown out,

their bodies should be
thrown out on the street

to put the fear of God and
the Republican movement

into anybody who would
choose that form of life.

(glass shattering)
(explosions booming)

We had lots of discussions
as to what we could do

to bring the war
to a higher level.

It was at that time that we
discussed the possibility

of bringing the war to England,

back to what my father had done.

We selected targets that were
emblems of the British Empire.

Gerry Adams was there.

Gerry announced to the room

that this was a very
serious operation

they were being asked
to volunteer for

and that it could
be a hanging job,

and he instructed
those who did not wish

to have any further
input into the operation,

he instructed them to leave.

I was very shocked and surprised

that people were so unwilling
to actually undertake

an important operation,

which I was only too happy
and too willing to undertake.

(somber music)

I carried the role of
OC on that operation.

We could set off 10
car bombs in Belfast

and they would
have little effect

on the English public
opinion but that one car bomb

in London would
change English opinion

to such an extent that
they would perhaps

begin to call to have
their troops taken out.

A lot of time and effort
was put into planning

the operation which was
decided should happen

on the 8th March
which was the day

there was to be a
Referendum held in the North

as to whether or not
people of the North

wish to remain part
of Britain or not

and that being a
foregone conclusion,

the car bombs placed in London

were to be the IRA response
to that referendum.

The plan was that we
would take six car bombs,

four cars got through, I
had already been to London

to select the targets.

The boys had been instructed
to not acknowledge each other,

to be oblivious of each other,

nothing untoward was to happen

and they of course
disobeyed all of that,

went to pubs, got drunk, were
carried into boarding houses,

and generally the
thing became a haimes.

As I approached Gerry Kelly
outside the art museum

in Trafalgar Square
he was leapfrogging

over the bollards and shouted
across the road to us,

what about yous, in a
broad Belfast accent.

(phone ringing)

But having said all of that
it didn't really matter,

we were set up.

(sirens wailing)

- [Reporter] Unidentified
terrorists strike

at the heart of London.

The first bomb explodes
in Great Scotland Yard

on the riverside of White
Hall injuring 38 people.

The second bomb explodes
outside the Old Bailey,

shattering the windows
and buildings...

- [Reporter] in the
explosions, one man was killed,

two policemen were
seriously hurt,

more than 180
people were injured,

police concentrated their hunt
for the bombers on the IRA.

London now knows
what Belfast is like.

- The police in London
were waiting for us,

they knew we were coming,
they had my photograph

and Marian's photograph
available to Special Branch

so basically the operation
was going to be a failure

from the start.

- [Ed] Was there an
informer on the job?

- There was an informer.

There was an informer
back in Ireland.

(dramatic music)

They interrogated Marian
first and she said nothing.

And then they interrogated me.

To every question they
asked me I responded,

I have nothing to say,
and, I have nothing to say

and eventually after
the 20th nothing to say

I did remark that, At the
risk of sounding repetitive,

I have nothing to say.

We were put in cells, stripped,

given blankets to wear
which I refused to wear

because I said it was filthy.

I was walked through
the police station naked

in front of the gathered
accumulation of policemen.

- Mummy?

- Don't cry.

Don't cry.

- My mother arrived, to visit
us after about four days.

She whispered in
my ear, no tears,

not in front of these people.

So that's how
staunch we had to be.

That's how staunch
my mother was.

She told us not to cry
in front these people.

And she continued that all the
way through our prison time.

I asked her, what's
prison really like Mummy?

And she said, I did 14 days
and it was like 14 years,

and I thought that was
a very honest answer

but not very consoling
for ourselves

who were looking at
enormous sentences

when we would be convicted,

being fully aware we
would be convicted.

(somber music)

To be on a hunger strike you've
got to condition your mind

and convince your
mind that food is bad,

to have food, to take food,
to eat food is failure,

is defeat, is wrong.

(Dolours sobbing)

- No, no!

(shouting)

Our hunger strike was 208
days and 180 something

of those days we were
forcibly fed each day.

Sometimes twice a day.

If you were sick enough,
they would measure

how much sick you brought up

after the tube had been removed.

That had a very,
very traumatic effect

on both myself and Marian.

- [Protesters] Release
the Price Sisters, now!

Release the Price Sisters!

- [Reporter] Brixton
Prison, London, and today,

inside these walls Dolours
and Marian Price are dying.

The British Home
Secretary Roy Jenkins

has got three
options open to him.

One, he can accede to
the Price Girls demands

and have them sent back
to Northern Ireland

to serve out the remainder of
their sentence in Armagh Gaol,

two, he can allow them to
continue their hunger strike

without any
interference and die,

or three, he can
order the resumption

of the forcible feeding that
has caused so much controversy

within sections of the
British Medical Profession.

- [Albert] Well at the
moment they're very weak

but in spirit and mentally
they are very alert

and I suppose
happy in their way.

- [Reporter] What
did they say to you?

- Well they said, Dad
its one way or the other,

we're going home to Armagh
or we're going home some way.

We'll go home.

- [Reporter] How long do
you feel they can survive?

- [Albert] The doctors would
probably know more than I know

but, as far as I'm concerned

they're not the wee
girls that left home.

- Something in my heart told
me that it was that time,

I don't know why, I
don't know what happened

but when I went into my cell
I started packing my stuff,

I don't know why, put my coat on

and I started to gather my
bits and pieces together

and the, the governor
came in and she told us

we were going home, she says,

"Well not home, you're
going to Armagh."

I said, that's
near enough for me.

(dramatic music)

- [Reporter] She's just coming
into Downing Street now,

here's comes the Priministerial
Rover bearing now

Mrs Thatcher as Prime Minister.

A wave that we've now become
really quite well accustomed to

throughout this campaign,
Mr Denis Thatcher

her husband standing behind.

- I know full well the
responsibilities that await me

as I enter the
door of number 10.

And I'll strive unceasingly
to try to fulfill the trust

and confidence that the British
people have placed in me

and the things in
which I believe.

And I would just like
to remember some words

of St Francis of Assisi
which I think are really just

particularly apt at the moment,

where there is discord
may we bring harmony,

where there is error
may we bring truth,

where there is doubt
may we bring faith

and where there is
despair may we bring hope.

- [Dolours] After the hunger
strike and the force feeding

and all of the psychological
damage that that created,

we didn't ever have
a normal relationship

with food or eating.

We both ended up with
very distorted notions

of the function of food

which resulted in us
both being anorexic

and not wanting to eat.

- Dolours, it's Marian,
they've released her,

she's going home today.

- [Dolours] A little part
of me had always hoped that,

because we'd been through
everything together that again,

this would be a together
thing, but it wasn't.

And actually I should
be quite pleased

that we were treated as two
individuals in that situation

because we hadn't been before.

We were always lumped together

as if we were some
kind of Siamese twins.

So I suppose in a way I
should have been quite pleased

that they released that
individual prisoner

and the other individual
prisoner had to stay behind.

And then I got really depressed

because it was like I'd been
separated from my Siamese twin.

So I was lost without Marian,
yes, I was lost without her.

- [Reporter] The prisoners
believe that in ending

the dirty protest
attention will be focused

on the second hunger strike,

this began yesterday in
the H Blocks with one

of the prisoners, Bobby Sands

from Twinbrook in West
Belfast refusing food.

According to
Provisional Sinn Fein,

more prisoners will
join the hunger strike

later this week or
early next week.

- [Margaret] There can be no
question of political status

for someone who is serving
a sentence for crime.

Crime is crime is crime.

- [Fenner] Dear Margaret,
you may remember

that eight years ago
Dolours and Marian Price

received a life sentence
for being involved

in a bombing outrage
outside the Old Bailey.

I'd sought to influence them
against violence and the IRA.

Marian has subsequently been
released on health grounds

and Dolours is left
isolated in Armagh Prison.

Her recent letters show me

that she is deeply
upset psychologically.

I am quite sure that if
Dolours were released

she would become active
despite the dangers

in urging her fellow Catholics
to refrain from violence.

I enclose a letter just
received from Dolours,

it illustrates her condition
of mind and her convictions.

- 30 is a marker in every
woman's life, for me it is more,

it means nearly almost all
my 20s wasted in prison.

It means no babies and my
fruitful years passing me by.

- [Reporter] He said the
lives of the hunger strikers

remain, as they have done
since the protests began,

in their own hands.

And the RUC has now
confirmed that...

- Marian comes to
visit me very rarely,

she will visit this week
for only the third time

since her release.

I no longer even pay lip
service to any organization.

- [Reporter] With the
condition of Bobby Sands

now deteriorating
seriously it seems

that the British government
is bracing itself

for the consequences if he dies.

Certainly, the
Northern Ireland office

will make no moves to...

- Each day I live my solitary
life and am made feel

an outcast, a traitor
to their cause

because I declare it
no longer to be mine.

- [Margaret] The men of
violence have chosen to play

what may well be
their last card.

They've turned their
violence against themselves

- Am I to live through
all those awful memories?

I will be eating, as
well as any anorexic can,

but mentally I will live and
starve each day with them.

I want to live, to love
life again, to survive.

I cant do that here.

(typewriter clicking)

I was very, very, very ill.

I think the last time
they'd weighed me

I was about five
stone or something.

I suppose at that point it
particularly didn't matter

to me one way or the other.

So I got to the stage
where I thought,

well if I die, I'll still
get out of this place.

I'd had enough of it,
physically and mentally

there was nothing left
of me to keep on going.

(somber music)

- [Reporter] Dolours Price,
one of two sisters jailed

in 1973 in connection
with IRA bomb attacks

in London is being released.

- [Reporter] The Northern
Ireland statement

said that Dolours Price
was being released

because there is unequivocal
independent medical evidence

that she was in imminent
danger of collapse

and death if she
stayed in prison.

- [Reporter] Reverend
Paisley failed to secure

an emergency debate
about the release

of Dolours Price
from Armagh Prison.

- [Reporter] The news
has filtered through
to this community

that Bobby Sands has died
after 66 days of hunger strike,

and in scenes reminiscent of
the early days of internment...

(birds chirping)

(dramatic music)

- [Reporter] The IRA has
announced what it describes

as a complete cessation
of military operations

from midnight tonight.

The statement, issued in
Dublin just after 11 o'clock,

doesn't attach any
conditions or time limit

to the ceasefire.

Reacting to the announcement,
the President of Sinn Fein,

Gerry Adams, said
it was courageous.

- [Gerry] I want to
say a word or two

about the volunteer soldiers
of the Irish Republican Army,

who have fought the British
for the last 25 years

and who are undefeated
by the British.

(crowd cheering)
(typewriter clicking)

- I am a Republican,
born and bred.

As were my mother
and father before me

and theirs before them.

Give me an honest
socialist any day

over a lying treacherous
so-called Republican.

I would take no more
joy in seeing my sons

follow their convictions
to prison or the grave

than did my mother, or
the mothers of all those

who lie in Republican plots.

It was my free choice

and I believe that we
all have that freedom.

But I will never abandon
my Republican beliefs

and state them
whenever I choose.

Nobody will deny me that right.

That my own aunt lived
without hands or eyes

with quiet dignity and without
complaint for 40 years.

No deal has been
done with the Brits.

I remember thinking, what?

We got nothing.

Congratulations Dr Paisley,
you got what you wanted,

Stormont back,
Northern Ireland secure

and the Fenians in their place.

Not this Fenian and
a good few besides.

We don't recognize
The Northern State.

Never have, never will.

Admit it lads, you lost the war.

Some of us see it as only
having lost another battle.

You can lose all the battles
but only when you surrender

do you lose your soul.

- A historic day at Stormont.

After two years of talks and
after a generation of bloodshed

and decades of
division and acrimony,

George Mitchell ushers in,
what the whole island hopes

will be a new era of peace.

An agreement that unites
Loyalists and Republican,

Unionist and Nationalist Leaders

in a wide-ranging
historical accord.

- The principal of
consent is absolute

and is throughout the
agreement and the breakthrough

is that that is now accepted
by all, North and South.

- [Dolours] I was on a very
protracted hunger strike,

I suffered forcible feeding

which was a very
horrendous experience,

I served 8 years in prison
and for what Sinn Fein

have achieved today,

I would not have missed
a good breakfast.

Sinn Fein quite
cynically seem to me

to be climbing over the corpses
of the people who have died

since the commencement
of the struggle.

Volunteers didn't only die,
volunteers had to kill as well.

- [Ed] Do The Disappeared
haunt you at all?

- Yes, yes, I
think back on those

who I had responsibility
for driving away.

I'm not a deeply
religious person

but I would say a
prayer for them.

- [Ed] Can I turn to the very
first of those operations

that you believe The
Unknowns were involved in

and that's the, the
Joe Lynskey affair.

- Yes.

- [Ed] What can you tell me
about the Joe Lynskey business?

- Joe Lynskey was an
extremely gentle, gentle man.

He made a horrendous
and grave mistake

which I believe came
from his naivety.

He'd been off to be a monk
and he was a mature man

but he was in many
ways immature,

certainly in the
ways of the world

and he made the mistake
of falling in love

with another volunteer's wife.

Joe set up this husband
had another volunteer

go and shoot him and the
volunteer acted in good faith

believing that this
person was an informer.

Which he wasn't.

Fortunately he didn't
die, fortunately he lived.

When it came to light that
this is what Joe had done

he would have been
court-martialed for that

and the sentence
for having done that

would have been death

and Joe would have been
sentenced to death.

(door bell rings)

I was given the task
of taking him away,

bringing him across the border

and leaving him in the hands

of people who would
deal with him.

He came in the car with me
and he tried to explain to me

what had happened and I said,
I don't want to know Joe,

I really don't want
to know what happened,

I just know that I have this
very difficult thing to do.

And he apologized to me
for being responsible

for my having to, to take him

and he brought his little
overnight bag with him

which I thought was
very sad and pathetic

because he sat
with it on his knee

and I thought on the way,
as I was driving down

I thought, I should
take him to the boat

or I should or why doesn't
he jump out of the car?

Why doesn't he smack me
on the head and run away?

Why doesn't he do
something to save himself?

But I realized that, his
loyalty and his dedication

to the movement was such that
he had accepted his fate.

And my dedication to
the movement was such

that I couldn't have
taken him to the boat

because I would have
been disobeying my orders

and I would have been acting
contrary to what I believed in

and I know Joe had done wrong

and I couldn't have seen
any other sentence for him

other than that and
I think he accepted,

he accepted his fate fully.

He shook my hand and he
thanked me for driving him

and I said, well
I'll see you Joe,

knowing full well that I
wouldn't see him again.

I couldn't live with the failure

of what my life's
purpose had been.

My life's purpose had
been to fight the fight

that had been established
and had been conducted

throughout my family
over the generations

and to realize that it
had all been for nothing.

(dramatic music)