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- 11/09/1974-05/02/1976
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Material in this file relates to case involving Máirín de Búrca (MdeB), General Secretary of Prisoners' Rights Organisation (as well as Sinn Féin Citizens' Advice Bureau) and charge that she and 5 others interfered with course of justice. They had picketed a jury and handed out flyers ahead of trial involving Karl Crowley, who was deemed "mentally retarded", had already been in prison and had attempted suicide 17 times. Crowley was handed 12-month sentence which it seems Mary Robinson (MR) got overturned. Includes letter of thanks (11/10/197?)
File also includes letter of complaint to Daily Telegraph relating to forged letter sent to Trade Unionist in England, purporting to be from MdeB and Tony Heffernan, about IRA bombing campaign, but was suspected to be forged and sent by extreme Protestant group, and which Telegraph published allegedly knowing it was false.
Includes handwritten notes, research material, photocopies of district court proceedings (18/07/1975), photocopies of Prisoners' Rights Organisation press release which was handed out at picket 08/07/1975; statements including photocopies; newspaper cuttings and correspondence from MdeB to MR.
[Archivist’s note: includes sensitive language relating to mental disability]
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Red Storeroom
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01/10/2024
05/11/2024