children: ‘Sons Recall 30 Years of Painful Memories’, Irish News, 24 October 2003.
kids would scuttle outside: ‘How Belfast Feels Behind the Barricades’, Christian Science Monitor, 10 September 1969.
‘the poor man’s racehorse’: Kevin C. Kearns, Dublin Street Life and Lore: An Oral History (Dublin: Glendale, 1991), p.63.
warm, nervous creatures: Interview with Michael McConville.
Eventually Arthur grew so weak: McKendry, Disappeared, p.13.
he had lung cancer: McKay, ‘Diary’; McKendry, Disappeared, p.13.
Michael would hear him: Interview with Michael McConville.
Chapter 4: An Underground Army
‘Are you carrying anything?’: This account is based on Tara Keenan-Thomson’s book Irish Women and Street Politics, pp.213–14, and on P-TKT.
The Falls Road and the Shankill Road: This description owes a debt to Tommy McKearney, The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament, p.47, and Winchester, In Holy Terror, p.164.
peace walls: H-BC; ‘IRA Provisionals Put Up Barriers in Belfast’, Telegraph, 30 June 1972.
The organisation dwindled: Liam McMillen put the number at 120 as of 1969. Liam McMillen, ‘The Role of the I.R.A. 1962–1967’ (lecture, Dublin, June 1972), reproduced in ‘Liam McMillen: Separatist, Socialist, Republican’, Repsol Pamphlet no. 21 (1975). For a revisionist account, which argues that the narrative of a diminished (and more peaceful) IRA has been greatly exaggerated, see Brian Hanley, ‘“I Ran Away”? The IRA and 1969: The Evolution of a Myth’, Irish Historical Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 152 (November 2013). He notes that British intelligence estimated that the IRA had perhaps 500 people throughout Northern Ireland in the spring of 1969, and that the organisation’s numbers in the Republic were much higher.
conspicuously unarmed: English, Armed Struggle, p.84; H-BC.
tendency to blow themselves up: ‘Why Britain Is Committed in Northern Ireland’, Irish Times, 27 January 1972.
‘I Ran Away’: H-BC; ‘The I.R.A., New York Brigade’, New York, 13 March 1972. Hanley points out that the story, which has circulated widely in the historical literature, of graffiti on walls in Belfast saying I RAN AWAY is probably apocryphal: there were hundreds of journalists in the city, yet no press photo of such a slogan exists. But Hanley acknowledges that the formulation was in use as of 1970, and Hughes, in his BC oral history, does recall the phrase appearing on city walls.
There was a faction in Belfast: Interview with Billy McKee; ‘IRA Founder, 89, Has “No Regrets”’, Belfast News Letter, 17 May 2011.
He had spent time: ‘Political Process Will Not Deliver a United Ireland’, Irish News, 30 March 2016.
A devout Catholic: H-BC.
‘You are a Dublin communist’: Martin Dillon, The Dirty War: Covert Strategies and Tactics Used in Political Conflicts (New York: Routledge, 1999), p.11; also see English, Armed Struggle, p.105.
first item on the agenda is the split: John F. Morrison, The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), p.viii.
To Dolours: Ibid., p.54.
forty-four British soldiers: McKittrick et al., Lost Lives, table 1, p.1494.
Two of Dolours’s aunts: Price interview in I, Dolours; P-EM.
The army frequently raided: ‘Intelligence War by Army Cracks IRA Ranks’, Telegraph, 5 November 1971.
One local house doubled as: ‘IRA Bomb School Uncovered by Army Swoop’, Telegraph, 8 January 1972; ‘One Escapes After Seven Are Arrested at Bomb Lecture’, Guardian, 8 January 1972.
Local residents resented: ‘London Bomb Campaign Decision Taken by IRA in Dublin’, Irish Times, 16 November 1973.
‘The local people had suddenly changed’: Price interview in I, Dolours.
When the authorities were coming: Winchester, In Holy Terror, p.164.
Scrappy school-age kids: ‘Soldiers Scurry in Sniper Country’, Baltimore Sun, 26 November 1971.
People took to joking: ‘Army Under Crossfire’, Telegraph, 16 July 1972.
she was bitterly disappointed: Interview with Anne Devlin.
Instead she secured a place: ‘London Bomb Campaign Decision Taken by IRA in Dublin’, Irish Times, 16 November 1973.
When the IRA needed guns: P-TKT.
Albert went on the run: ‘Home Often Raided, Says Accused Girl’, Irish Times, 24 October 1973; ‘London Bomb Campaign Decision Taken by IRA in Dublin’, Irish Times, 16 November 1973; ‘Dolours Price Won Rapid Promotion As Gunmen Died’, Telegraph, 15 November 1973.
‘never the same’: ‘Lest We Forget’, Daily Express, 1 June 1974.
‘I want to join’: P-EM.
declaration of allegiance: P-TKT.
She vowed to obey: Price interview in I, Dolours.
nursing a cup of tea: P-TKT.
fantasy of peaceful resistance: P-EM.
No amount of marching: Price interview in I, Dolours.
Having strayed, in her youth: Keenan-Thomson, Irish Women and Street Politics, 1956–1973 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010), p.149.
But at night they would disappear: ‘Lest We Forget’, Daily Express; P-TKT.
Young people could vanish: Interview with Francis McGuigan.
Unfazed by the assault rifle: Interview with Hugh Feeney.
This could be comical: Interview with Francis McGuigan and Kevin Hannaway.
A moon-faced teetotaller: ‘Seán Mac Stíofáin: Obituary’, Telegraph, 19 May 2001. Mac Stíofáin once said, ‘When I