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4 An Underground Army
- Are you carrying anything? Pistol
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“formalising the sectarian geography”
- The Falls Road
- the Shankill Road
- “adopt a more avowedly Marxist philosophy, which advocated peaceful resistance through politics”
- sectarian strife
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“to rekindle the IRA’s identity as an agent of violent change.”
- “ In September 1969, an IRA commander named Liam McMillen” ...
- “Twenty-one armed men burst into the meeting, led by Billy McKee, a legendary IRA street fighter. ”
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a split in the IRA
- old IRA: Official IRA (Stickies)
- Provisional IRA (Provos)
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Andersonstown
- invigorating solidarity
- “As the situation grew dire in 1969, normal life had been suspended.”
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Dolours Price
- 1970 “St Mary’s Teacher Training College, at the foot of the Falls Road
- a bachelor’s degree in education
- 1971 join the IRA, formal induction
- “ the loyalist who beat her at Burntollet Bridge”
- “Dolours had concluded that her fantasy of peaceful resistance had been naïve.”
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“Marian joined the Provos, too.”
- IRA(Provos) was fanatical about secrecy”
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Francie McGuigan.
- "comical"
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Seán Mac Stíofáin
- “though born a Protestant, was a devout Catholic”
- “proposed that Dolours join the Cumann na mBan, the female auxiliary wing of the IRA. ”
- Price told Mac Stíofáin, was to be a ‘fighting soldier’.
- Provos start admitting women
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the Price sisters initially they worked as couriers
- transported incendiary material
- “ women who might deploy their own sexuality as a weapon”
- “Dolours made a point of asking that she never be assigned to a honey trap.”
- “Leila Khaled hijacked a TWA flight from Rome to Tel Aviv”
- “McCann was always struck by her sheer glamour.” (Eamonn McCann)
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bank robbing
- rescue James Brown,
- Gerry Adams
- Main Topic 3