Blanketmen O'Rawe Richard
Blanketmen O'Rawe Richard Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and…
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Blanketmen O'Rawe Richard
Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA Army Council and the prisoners themselves. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s.
After ten years, and the release of historical state and personal papers, Richard O'Rawe's assertions in Blanketmen have been vindicated. Passionate, disturbing and controversial, this remains a landmark book in the cruel history of Northern Ireland. He has been married to Bernadette for forty years, has three grown-up children, and still lives in west