Thatcher papers disclose efforts to resolve 1981 hunger strikes
Two senior republicans still in dispute over whether there was potential for a deal when just four of 10 hunger strikers had died
British believed elements of IRA wanted peace in 1981
Papers disclose Thatcher was told of unnamed “Provisionals” prepared to consider stopping “terrorist campaign”
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