Afterlives_ The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer that Changed Irish History by O'Rawe Richard

Author:O'Rawe, Richard [O'Rawe, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781843512165
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2012-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

McCann claimed to have spoken to ‘The man who was sharing a cell with O’Rawe in July 1981.’4 During their conversation McCann said that Scull had told him: ‘Richard isn’t a liar. He told the truth in his book. I heard what passed between Richard and Bik [McFarlane]. I remember Richard saying: “Tá go leor ann” [there’s enough there] and the reply: “Aontaím leat” [I agree with you]. There’s just no question that that happened.’5

McCann went on to say: ‘O’Rawe’s account of the negotiations as seen from “inside” will not be contradicted by the account from a different perspective contained in the BBC programme to be transmitted tonight focusing on the role of the “Mountain Climber”, Brendan Duddy.’6

He summed up:

The suspicions that still surround the events and which have damaged the republican leadership in the eyes of many former activists arise, it seems, not so much from O’Rawe’s narrative of what happened but from an adamant refusal on the part of the IRA leadership of the time to admit to serious and, in the end, fatal errors in their conduct of the hunger strike and from determined efforts to blacken O’Rawe’s name in an attempt to obscure the truth.7

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