Now Price was having trouble reconciling herself to peace. Mackers had started a magazine called The Blanket, which featured writing by disaffected republicans, and Price became a regular contributor. Her columns often took the form of poison pen letters addressed directly to Adams. “What Gerry Adams is saying, and saying gently so as not to panic the grass-roots, is, ‘They will go away, you know,’ ” she wrote in 2004. “The IRA will disband…the guns will be sealed in concrete…A few will get the political jobs, others will get satisfactory jobs (community work and the like), some will get shops
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