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Funeral of IRA victim, soldier Stephen Cummins

Title
Funeral of IRA victim, soldier Stephen Cummins
Genre
News report; Interview; Poetry
TX Date
16 Mar 1989
Year of production
1989
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Duration
00:01:45
Description
Report by Ian Henderson on the funeral of 24 year-old Lance Bombardier Stephen Cummins, who was killed in Londonderry by an IRA landmine (08/03/89). Cummins’s commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Fairman, talks about defeating the IRA; Carol Turley(?), the mother of Cummins’s fiancee, Debbie Berriman(?), talks about the impact of his death on her daughter. Clip includes excerpts from the reading of the poem, Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (probably by Mary Elizabeth Frye).
Contributors
Ian Henderson; Barry Fairman; Carol Turley(?)
Keywords
Northern Ireland; IRA; Funerals; Poetry; Family; Army; Soldiers; Stephen Cummins; Mary Elizabeth Frye

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