IRA leaders divided on armed struggle, say Thatcher memos
IRA leaders divided on armed struggle, say Thatcher memos

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The British government was aware before the 1981 hunger strike that some senior Provisional IRA figures were privately opposed to the use of physical force, according to secret documents found in the papers of Margaret Thatcher.

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