Over new year, Dr John Bew covered the release of British state papers under the thirty-year rule for the Irish Times, making new discoveries about the strategy of the IRA and the British government’s secret negotiations with them at the time of the hunger strikes in 1981. Please see below for his articles.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1230/breaking4.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1230/1224309632321.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1231/1224309674766.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0102/1224309715956.html