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20 March 2014

The lady was for turning: Margaret Thatcher’s Battle With the IRA by Thomas Hennessy

The extraordinary sequence of events now seems too far-fetched even for a British version of Homeland.

By John Bew

(Photo By Fight or flight: a British soldier stands guard near a republican mural in Belfast, 1982. (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty))

Hunger Strike: Margaret Thatcher’s Battle With the IRA (1980-1981)
Thomas Hennessy
Irish Academic Press, 488pp, £19.99

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