Additions  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 hungerstrike p  Moloney and there was contact in the late s prior to Thatchers departure pp    Thatchers departure revived the process says Moloney p  WH