To Price, the Good Friday Agreement felt like an especially personal double cross. “The settlement betrayed what she had been born into,” her friend Eamonn McCann recalled. “It had a more intense and deep-seated effect on Dolours than it did on many other people.” She had set bombs and robbed banks and seen friends die and nearly died herself, in the expectation that these violent exertions would finally achieve the national liberation for which generations of her family had fought. “For what Sinn Féin has achieved today, I would not have missed a good breakfast,” she said in an interview on
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