Mar 1, 2005 Comments Off on Was my father’s death PR exercise? (2005)
Was my father’s death PR exercise? (2005)
Was my father’s death PR exercise?
(Seamus McKinney and Catherine Morrison, Irish News)
The son of a Derry hunger striker has voiced concerns over claims that the republican leadership could have allowed his father to die for political gain.
Michael Devine, whose father Mickey was the last of the 10 men to die in the 1981 protest, was speaking after publication of Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-block Hunger Strike.
The book’s author, Richard O’Rawe, was a public relations officer for the hunger strikers in the Maze. Along with IRA prisoners’ ‘OC’ Brendan Bik McFarlane, he was closely in-volved in the day-to-day events of the hunger strike.
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