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Price sisters, 1974

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/31

Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence relating to AFB's visit to the Price sisters [Dolours and Marian Price], both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973, including: hate mail, mainly on the Price sisters, but also against AFB's Private Members' Bill to amend the Race Relations Act; other letters on the Price sisters, many congratulating AFB when they abandoned their hunger strike; rough notes for AFB's statement on the sisters; the text of AFB's speech at a civil rights rally in Tyrone, demanding the release of all internees; statement by the Home Secretary [(Leonard) Robert Carr] on the sisters; memorandum on the sisters by the Quakers.

Dates

  • Creation: 1974

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Hate mail closed for data protection reasons.

Extent

2 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box 11 #42

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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