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Ironically, those who led the argument that elections should be used to further the republican project in
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for prisoners, O'Hare became involved with the campaign to "defend political status" for the prisoners. He became a member of the
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in 1971, O'Hare helped set up and became chairperson of the
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the magazine of the New York Irish Arts Centre. He published a history of the 1907 Belfast dockers and carters strike led by James Larkin, 'The divine gospel of discontent'. In 2007 he published a book in Irish on Irish flora,
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