Marian Price

Marian Price was freed in 1980 on a Royal prerogative of mercy when her anorexia nervosa resulting from her hunger strike was deemed to put her life at risk.

Both of her parents had been imprisoned, her father for involvement with the Irish Republican Army and her mother as part of the Cumann na mBan.

[2]: 9–13 Price and her sister Dolours participated in the Belfast to Derry civil rights march in January 1969 and were attacked in the Burntollet Bridge incident.

[3][4][5] The Price sisters, along with Kelly and Feeney, immediately went on hunger strike in a campaign to be repatriated to a prison in Northern Ireland.

In an interview with Suzanne Breen, Price described being force-fed:Four male prison officers tie you into the chair so tightly with sheets you can't struggle.

You're frightened you'll choke to death.Marian Price was freed in 1980 on a Royal prerogative of mercy when her anorexia nervosa resulting from her hunger strike was deemed to put her life at risk.

[12] On 17 November 2009, she was named as being one of two people arrested in connection with an attack on the Massereene Barracks in Northern Ireland in March 2009, organized by the dissident republican group the Real IRA, in which two British soldiers were shot dead.

[15] On the same day the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, revoked her release from prison on licence.

[17] On 7 June 2012, a protest close to Times Square in Manhattan, New York, called for Price to be released from what her family describes as internment.

[19][20] Price was portrayed by Hazel Doupe and Helen Behan in the 2024 limited series, Say Nothing, which depicts the IRA in Belfast and The Disappeared during The Troubles.

[21] On 4 December 2024, Price announced, through her solicitor, that she would be taking legal action against Disney+ over the series depicting her killing Jean McConville.

[22][23][24] In response to the threatened lawsuit, Say Nothing author, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, stood by his allegation that Marian Price murdered Jean McConville, saying, "I stand by my reporting.