Dolours Price

Biography

Dolours Price (1950-2013) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer. She grew up in an Irish republican family and joined the IRA in 1971. She was sent to jail for her role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and was released in 1981. Dolours was married to Irish actor Stephen Rea from 1983 to 2003. She died in 2013 after taking a mix of sedatives and anti-depressants. Her death was ruled acci...

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Birthday: December 16, 1950

Passed: January 23, 2013

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Also Known As: Dolours Price-Rea

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Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England's Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release. The interviews, brought to life through vividly cinematic reenactments, uncover the birth of her fierce commitment to Irish Republicanism. Price revisits the bombing and the 200-day hunger strike that followed, and discusses her role in the disappearances of some suspected Republican informants. With 2018 marking the 20th anniversary since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and 50 years since the start of the Troubles, filmmaker Maurice Sweeney presents an eye-opening portrait of a once passionate, now disillusioned nationalist whose clarity of purpose both inspired allegiance and promised terror for so many.

I, Dolours

2018

7.3

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