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Desmond Mackin back in Ireland (1981)

Genre

Interview; Press conference

Desmond Mackin, who was been detained in the USA while fighting an extradition request from Britain for shooting a British soldier, talks about his return to the Irish Republic after being declared a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

David Schalkwyk on the Robben Island Shakespeare (2014 Audio)

aka: Cowards die Many Times Before Their Deaths, The Valiant Never Taste of Death but Once

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare’s complete...

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Allegations of prisoner abuse in Ulster (1978)

Genre

Interview

Douwe Korff of Amnesty International discusses the allegations that suspects in Ulster were mistreated by the RUC. It has been suggested that the reports could be a propaganda stunt by the IRA, but Amnesty...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maze Prison hunger strike (1981)

Genre

News report; Speech

Paul Larsman(?) reports on the unsuccessful attempt by European Human Rights commissioners to visit hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Maze Prison, Belfast as he comes close to death over demands for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maze hunger strike - Humphrey Atkins view (1980)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an interview (including excerpts) with UK Northern Ireland Secretary Humphrey Atkins on the hunger strike by Republican prisoners at the Maze Prison in Belfast and their demands for political...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Nelson Mandela to visit England (1990)

Genre

Interview

Archbisop Trevor Huddleston discusses the forthcoming visit to England of Nelson Mandela. He says the main topic of conversation when the former political prisoner visits a pop concert next month will be...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maze Prison hunger strike - family member interviewed (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a relative of one of the republican hunger strikers at the Maze Prison, Belfast, on the prisoner’s determination that his family should not intervene should he become unconscious and on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Bobby Sands hunger strike - John O’Connell view (1981)

Genre

Press conference; Speech

Statement by Irish TD and MEP, Dr John O’Connell about his visit to Maze Prison in Belfast, to meet IRA prisoner and hunger striker Bobby Sands. O’Connell made the journey as part of a Fianna Fail...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Tony Gifford on Pauline McLaughlin release (1981)

Genre

Interview

Lord Tony Gifford on the case of Pauline McLaughlin, a republican prisoner in Armagh Prison, following her release on medical and humanitarian grounds. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Mandela visits Glasgow and receives freedom of cities (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Nelson Mandela is in Glasgow to receive the freedom of nine towns and cities some given years ago while he was still a political prisoner and unable to formally accept, and call for further support as South...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio