Republican and IRA Spokesman

"I think it is reasonable to assume that at some point the IRA will make a response to Sands' death."
     Gerry Adams, V.P., Provisional Sinn Fein
     Washington Post, 10 May 1981, A-14

"We have 100 volunteers waiting in the queue, all prepared to die if necessary."
     IRA spokesman
     San Francisco Chronicle, 16 June 1981, 12-2

"Michael's death, the tenth in the present hunger strike in Long Kesh at the hands of the British government, clearly demonstrates to even those who do not want to see, England's concept of democratic rule in Ireland.

English politicians, as always when it concerns Ireland, are so malevolent that they do not even realize that every death in Long Kesh is another nail in the coffin of British imperialism."
      IRA statement regarding the death of Michael Devine
      Irish People, 29 August 1981, 1

"The main problem is the intervention for medical aid by hunger strikers' families. Unless the prisoners can find a means of overcoming the intervention of relatives, they must reassess the hunger strike. They may feel they have a means of overcoming the families' intervention. It is a very difficult situation we are in."
     Richard McAuley, Belfast chairman of Sinn Fein
     Chicago Tribune, 3 October 1981, N1-3-5

"The right by the prisoners to wear their own clothes has been won by the deaths of the 10 H-Block martyrs' during the 7-month hunger strike."
      Gerry Adams, Belfast leader of Provisional Sinn Fein, political arm and public
      voice of the IRA
      Washington Post, 7 October 1981, A11