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Dolours Price
Dolours Price (16 December 1950 – 23 January 2013) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. She grew up in an Irish republican family and joined the IRA in 1971. She was sent to jail for her role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing and released in 1981. In her later life, Price was a vocal opponent of the Irish peace process, Sinn Féin and Gerry Adams.
She married actor Stephen Rea in 1983; they divorced in 2003.
Dolours Price was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She and her sister, Marian, also an IRA member, were the daughters of Albert Price, a prominent Irish republican and former IRA member from Belfast, and Christina (née Dolan), a member of Cumann na mBan. Both parents were imprisoned at different times. The name Dolours derives from the "dolours'" (sorrows) of the Virgin Mary; however, the family was not particularly religious.
Christina's sister Bridie Dolan was blinded and lost both hands in an accident handling IRA explosives, and lived with the family.
Dolours attended St Dominic's Grammar School on the Falls Road, a classmate of Mary Leneghan (later McAleese; later President of Ireland, 1997–2011). She then qualified as a trainee teacher at St Mary's College, Belfast, in 1968.
Both Dolours and her sister Marian Price became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s. They participated in the Belfast to Derry civil rights march in January 1969 and were attacked in the Burntollet Bridge incident.
In 1971, together with Marian, she joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1972 she joined an elite group within the IRA called "The Unknowns," commanded by Pat McClure. The Unknowns were tasked with various secretive activities and transported several accused traitors across the border into the Republic of Ireland, where they were "disappeared". She later stated that she had driven Joe Lynskey across the border to face trial. In addition she stated that she, Pat McClure, and a third Unknown were tasked with killing Jean McConville, with the third Unknown actually shooting her.
She led the car bombing attacks, known as the Old Bailey bombing, in London on 8 March 1973, which injured over 200 people and is believed to have contributed to the death of one person who suffered a fatal heart attack. The two sisters were arrested, along with Gerry Kelly, Hugh Feeney, and six others on the day of the bombing as they were boarding a flight to Ireland. They were tried and convicted at the Great Hall in Winchester Castle on 14 November 1973. Although originally sentenced to life imprisonment, which was to run concurrently for each criminal charge, their sentence was eventually reduced to 20 years. Both sisters immediately went on a hunger strike, demanding to be moved to a women's prison in Northern Ireland. The hunger strike lasted for 208 days because the women were force-fed by prison authorities for 165 days. This was done by holding their mouths open with callipers, while liquid nourishment was poured into a tube into their throats. After this process was stopped on 18 May 1974, the sisters continued their strike until 7 June. The International Medical Council later ruled the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers unethical.
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Dolours Price
Dolours Price (16 December 1950 – 23 January 2013) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. She grew up in an Irish republican family and joined the IRA in 1971. She was sent to jail for her role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing and released in 1981. In her later life, Price was a vocal opponent of the Irish peace process, Sinn Féin and Gerry Adams.
She married actor Stephen Rea in 1983; they divorced in 2003.
Dolours Price was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She and her sister, Marian, also an IRA member, were the daughters of Albert Price, a prominent Irish republican and former IRA member from Belfast, and Christina (née Dolan), a member of Cumann na mBan. Both parents were imprisoned at different times. The name Dolours derives from the "dolours'" (sorrows) of the Virgin Mary; however, the family was not particularly religious.
Christina's sister Bridie Dolan was blinded and lost both hands in an accident handling IRA explosives, and lived with the family.
Dolours attended St Dominic's Grammar School on the Falls Road, a classmate of Mary Leneghan (later McAleese; later President of Ireland, 1997–2011). She then qualified as a trainee teacher at St Mary's College, Belfast, in 1968.
Both Dolours and her sister Marian Price became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s. They participated in the Belfast to Derry civil rights march in January 1969 and were attacked in the Burntollet Bridge incident.
In 1971, together with Marian, she joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1972 she joined an elite group within the IRA called "The Unknowns," commanded by Pat McClure. The Unknowns were tasked with various secretive activities and transported several accused traitors across the border into the Republic of Ireland, where they were "disappeared". She later stated that she had driven Joe Lynskey across the border to face trial. In addition she stated that she, Pat McClure, and a third Unknown were tasked with killing Jean McConville, with the third Unknown actually shooting her.
She led the car bombing attacks, known as the Old Bailey bombing, in London on 8 March 1973, which injured over 200 people and is believed to have contributed to the death of one person who suffered a fatal heart attack. The two sisters were arrested, along with Gerry Kelly, Hugh Feeney, and six others on the day of the bombing as they were boarding a flight to Ireland. They were tried and convicted at the Great Hall in Winchester Castle on 14 November 1973. Although originally sentenced to life imprisonment, which was to run concurrently for each criminal charge, their sentence was eventually reduced to 20 years. Both sisters immediately went on a hunger strike, demanding to be moved to a women's prison in Northern Ireland. The hunger strike lasted for 208 days because the women were force-fed by prison authorities for 165 days. This was done by holding their mouths open with callipers, while liquid nourishment was poured into a tube into their throats. After this process was stopped on 18 May 1974, the sisters continued their strike until 7 June. The International Medical Council later ruled the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers unethical.