1. Dolours Price was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.
20 Facts About Dolours Price
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Dolours Price grew up in an Irish republican family and joined the IRA in 1971.
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Dolours Price was sent to jail for her role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and released in 1981.
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Dolours Price married actor Stephen Rea in 1983; they divorced in 2003.
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Dolours Price was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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The name Dolours Price derives from the "dolours'" of the Virgin Mary; however, the family was not particularly religious.
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Dolours Price later stated that she had driven Joe Lynskey across the border to face trial.
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Dolours Price 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.
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In 1980 Dolours Price received the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, and was freed on humanitarian grounds in 1981, suffering from anorexia nervosa brought on by her experience of fasting and force-feeding.
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Dolours Price's health improved after her release but she struggled with disordered eating throughout the remainder of her life.
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Dolours Price was a contributor to The Blanket, an online journal edited by former Provisional IRA member Anthony McIntyre, until it ceased publication in 2008.
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In 2001, Dolours Price was arrested in Dublin and charged with possession of stolen prescription pads and forged prescriptions.
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In February 2010, it was reported by The Irish News that Dolours Price had offered help to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains in locating graves of three men, Joe Lynskey, Seamus Wright, and Kevin McKee.
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In 2010, Dolours Price claimed Gerry Adams had been her officer commanding when she was active in the IRA.
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Dolours Price admitted taking part in the murder of Jean McConville, as part of an IRA action in 1972.
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Dolours Price claimed the murder of McConville, a mother of 10, was ordered by Adams when he was an IRA leader in West Belfast.
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Adams further denied Dolours Price's allegations, stating that the reason for them was that she was opposed to the IRA's abandonment of paramilitary warfare in favour of politics in 1994, in the facilitation of which Adams had been a key figure.
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In January 2013 Dolours Price died, and in April 2013, the Supreme Court turned away an appeal that sought to keep the interviews from being supplied to the PSNI.
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On 24 January 2013, Dolours Price was found dead at her Malahide, County Dublin home, from a toxic effect of mixing prescribed sedative and anti-depressant medication.
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Dolours Price's body was buried at Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast.