The funeral has taken place of Brendan Hughes, a former IRA member and hunger striker who was later critical of Sinn Féin over the peace process.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams was among some 2,000 people who attended the funeral in Belfast.
Mr Adams helped to carry the tricolour-draped coffin at one stage. His decision to carry the coffin was taken as a sign any rift had been healed.
Brendan 'The Dark' Hughes died on Saturday night after a short illness. He was 59.
In 1973, he escaped from Long Kesh in a refuse lorry and fled over the border. He was re-arrested and sent back to the prison.
Mr Hughes was transferred to the new H-Blocks where he became the commander of the IRA prisoners in the Maze.
He led the dirty protest, which developed into the hunger strike in 1980 but called it off after 53 days when one of the men was near death.
Brendan Hughes was released in 1986.
In the years after the IRA ceasefires and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, he became increasingly disillusioned with the direction of Sinn Féin.
Earlier Gerry Adams paid tribute to Brendan Hughes, describing him as a very good friend and comrade.
He insisted that, although Brendan Hughes disagreed with the direction he had taken in recent years, he still held him in high esteem.
Meanwhile, the Sinn Féín MP for Mid-Ulster Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to Maggie Hughes, the mother of former IRA member and hunger striker Francis Hughes from Bellaghy in south Derry, who died earlier today.
