Marian Price was freed in 1980 on a Royal prerogative of mercy when her anorexia nervosa resulting from her hunger strike was deemed to put her life at risk.
17 Facts About Marian Price
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Marian Price was charged with providing property for the purposes of terrorism in 2011 and released in 2013.
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Marian Price was born into a strongly Republican family in Andersonstown, west Belfast.
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Marian Price was jailed for her part in the IRA London bombing campaign of 1973.
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Marian Price was part of a unit that placed four car bombs in London on 8 March 1973.
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Marian Price was freed in 1980 on a Royal prerogative of mercy when her anorexia nervosa resulting from her hunger strike was deemed to put her life at risk.
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Marian Price resumed a private life, emerging only in the 1990s as a vocal opponent of Sinn Fein's "peace strategy".
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Marian Price has been critical of the Good Friday Agreement, saying "It is certainly not what I went to prison for, and it is not what my sister went to prison for".
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Marian Price was refused a visa to enter the United States on 15 December 1999.
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Marian Price had been due to speak at an Irish Freedom Committee fundraising event in New York.
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In 2000 Marian Price gave the funeral oration for Joseph O'Connor, a member of the Real IRA.
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Paterson said the decision was made because the threat posed by Marian Price had "significantly increased".
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Marian Price was the only female inmate at HM Prison Maghaberry near Lisburn from May 2011 until she was moved to the hospital wing of HM Prison Hydebank Wood in February 2012.
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On 7 June 2012, a protest close to Times Square in Manhattan, New York, called for Marian Price to be released from what her family describes as internment.
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On 30 May 2013, Marian Price was released from prison after a decision by the Parole Commissioners.
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Marian Price was portrayed by Hazel Doupe and Helen Behan in the 2024 limited series, Say Nothing, which depicts the IRA in Belfast and The Disappeared during The Troubles.
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On 4 December 2024, Marian Price announced, through her solicitor, that she would be taking legal action against Disney+ over the series depicting her killing Jean McConville.