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First edition. Small handbill or broadside. Single sheet of off-white paper measuring 5" x 7.5" printed on both sides; glossy coating on recto, as issued. Lightly creased, else a very good copy. Recto prints a list of nine instructions if you are arrested by the army, police or Royal Ulster Constabulary, and explains other legal rights of the detained, including those arrested under Section 10 or 11 of the Emergency Provisions Act, stating: "Ask the security forces under what power they are arresting you," "Request a solicitor," "Do not necessarily believe everything you are told by the security forces," "Do not sign any document," etc. Verso is headed, "Know Your Rights, Questioning and the Census," and prints a list of seven instructions pertaining to rights regarding the "Census," including "You must answer questions relating to your identity and movements when asked…", "You are under an obligation to tell the security forces what you know about recent incidents or explosions…", "You do not have to fill out any army 'census' forms," and lastly, "You never give your religion." Denis Faul, Irish Roman Catholic priest, and civil rights campaigner, was born in County Louth, in the north Province of Leinster. He protested against human rights abuses by the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary in the 1970's, and also against Republican and Loyalist paramilitary violence. He campaigned for the release of the Birmingham Six, and the Guildford Four, and gained fame for his role in helping to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike at Maze Prison. He was elevated by the Catholic Church to the rank of Monsignor in 1995. Uncommon. *COPAC* notes a single holding at Trinity College, Dublin; unrecorded by *OCLC. OCLC* lists over seventy other publications by Fr. Denis Faul, including a number of items similar in content, from the same time period.
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