It is hard to judge how seriously to take such folklore. Some of it was the kind of frisky sexualized rumor that occasionally circulates in times of violent upheaval. A society that had always been a bit fusty and repressed was suddenly splitting apart in the most cataclysmic fashion. The perceived threats of sexual liberation and paramilitary chaos converged in the mythical specter of a pair of leggy, rifle-toting libertines. But if this image was to some degree a battlefield fantasy, one of the key people projecting it was Dolours Price herself. “Would you like to be shown round our bomb
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