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ONIH.  Thanks for cleaning this up.  Your editing prompted me to add a link to several reviews of the book, and a direct quotation from one of those reviews.  This will better inform readers.  

It is not clear what you mean by "no contact took place while Thatcher was in power," but if you mean that there was no contact between the Republican movement and British representatives while Thatcher was in power Moloney has it otherwise.  According to him, there was contact during the hunger-strike (p. 207, Moloney) and there was contact in the late 1980s/1990 prior to Thatcher's departure (pp. 259-60, 282-83).  "Thatcher's departure revived the process," says Moloney (p. 283). WH