Dolours Price
| Dolours Price | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 June 1951 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Died | 23 January 2013 (aged 61) Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer; political activist |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Rea (m. 1983–2003; divorced); 2 sons |
Dolours Price (21 June 1951 – 23 January 2013) was, along with her younger sister Marian, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. She was also a political activist who became a staunch critic of Gerry Adams' leadership of Sinn Féin.
Dolours and her sister, Marian, also an IRA volunteer, were the daughters of Albert Price, a prominent Irish republican and former IRA member from Belfast. Their aunt, Bridie Dolan, was blinded and lost both hands in an accident handling IRA explosives.
Price became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s and joined the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s. She participated in a car bombing of the Old Bailey on 8 March 1973. The explosion injured over 200 people and is believed to have contributed to the death of one person who suffered a fatal heart attack. The two sisters were arrested, along with Gerry Kelly, Hugh Feeney and six others, on the day of the bombing, as they were boarding a flight to Ireland. They were tried and convicted at the Great Hall in Winchester Castle on 14 November after a six-hour deliberation by the jury.
Although originally sentenced to life imprisonment, which was to run concurrently for each criminal charge, their sentence was eventually reduced to 20 years. Price served seven years of her sentence for her part in the bombing. She immediately went on a hunger strike in a campaign to be moved to a prison in Northern Ireland. The hunger strike lasted more than 200 days because the hunger strikers were force-fed by prison authorities. The force-feeding ended after the death of another hunger striker, Michael Gaughan, in June 1974.
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