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 hunger strike p moloney and there was contact in the late s prior to thatcher's departure pp thatcher's departure revived the process says moloney p wh