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IRA asked British for peace talks in 1978

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    Serenity Now!
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    MarchDub wrote: »
    Peace talks might have begun earlier than they did but the British refused to talk. Newly released papers tell of offer by IRA. Here are links to the story...

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/1230/1230581469072.html?via=mr

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1230/north.html

    The PIRA already met and talked with the British govt in clandestine talks held earlier in the 1970s.

    No big secret nowadays.


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    MarchDub
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    Serenity Now! wrote: »
    The PIRA already met and talked with the British govt in clandestine talks held earlier in the 1970s.

    No big secret nowadays.

    True. But as a researcher myself it's always great to have official papers released to support what previously had been "known" but not yet textually supported.


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    Serenity Now!
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    MarchDub wrote: »
    True. But as a researcher myself it's always great to have official papers released to support what previously had been "known" but not yet textually supported.
    It was Peter Taylor's (the great BBC journo) coverage of the North which documented it for me.


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