The spokesperson went on: "Kate Adie in her autobiography, 'The Kindness of Strangers,' described the scene of Bobby Sands wake in a most dehumanising manner. In the book she describes going into the wake and then goes on to describe in a very offensive manner the scene which lay before her. The IRSP are not going to repeat this trash as it only serves to highlight Kate Adie's hatred for the Irish people during her time posted here. Other sections of her book describe in an outright racist manner the mental state of women and the malnourishment of the men in nationalist areas of the North during the early seventies compared to the superior British troops who the people rose up against."

He continued: "This rant by Adie is nothing short of an insult coming from a member of the Brit establishment who was posted here to report back to the people of Britain a very one sided view of the situation. Like other reporters of her time she was part of the British propaganda machine. Her visit to Derry is an insult to the men and women of this city and across the north who died at the hands of the 'pink cheeked lads, squat and muscly,' as she described members of the occupation British Army."

The spokesperson concluded: "The book by Adie is nothing but a venomous and scurrilous attack upon life in working class areas of the North during the late seventies and early eighties. Her descriptions of the local population can only be expected from a middle class puppet of the Brit propaganda machine."

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