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Irish "British Soldiers Speak Out on Ireland" c1980
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British Soldiers Speak out on Ireland

This pamphlet was written and published by ex soldiers

"We dream
We dream that this land
Is our land
That one day
Catholic and Protestant
Believer and non believer
Will stand
And dream
As Irishmen

We dream
of a green land
Without death
A new silence descending
A silence of peace.
And this dream
We dream, soldier
Without you
That is our understanding"
Extract from a poem by Patrick Galvin

32 page journal with 22 black and white photographs and numerous cartoons and illustrations.

Dates to remember:

1975: New truce between IRA and British Army leads to 'Truce Monitoring Centres' liaising between republicans and British Government officials. T is a heightened campaign by loyalist death squads. Constitutional Convention to discuss future government of the Six Counties meets but is collapsed by the Ulster Unionist Party the following year.

1976: Truce between IRA and British Army breaks down. The British Government unilaterally withdraws the political status won by republican prisoners and introduces a "criminalisation policy" to remove the embarrassing acknowledgement to the world that the conflict is a political struggle. This leads to the blanket protest, w republican freedom fighters refuse to wear prison uniform. IRA Volunteer Frank Stagg dies on hunger strike in an English Prison.

1978: European Court of Human Rights rules that interrogation techniques used on internees in 1971 amounted to "inhuman and degrading" treatment.

1980 - 1981: The prison protest against criminalisation is taken to a new level in 1980 and 1981, with the hunger strikes for the restoration of political status. Ten prisoners, led by Bobby Sands, protest to the death in 1981. The prisoners win their demands in the wake of the hunger strike.

1982 - 1983: As the IRA's campaign to secure a British withdrawal continues, Sinn Féin emerges as a real political force in the 1980s, attempting to build mass support for its demand for self-determination for the Irish people. The result is substantial electoral progress, including the election of Gerry Adams as MP for West Belfast in

1983. This same year 38 republican prisoners escape from the H-Blocks.

1984 - 1992: The party's successes, despite repression and censorship, place it centre-stage and thwart British Government efforts to impose an internal partitionist solution in the Six Counties. Having always pursued a durable peace settlement based on national self-determination, the party redefines its peace strategy in key documents, including Scenario for Peace (1987) and Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland (1992). The pursuit of that strategy lays the groundwork for the efforts to achieve lasting peace.

The Good Friday Agreement 1998

Measures: 8.45" X 11.90".

Condition: Very Good.

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