Betty Williams on women’s peace movement

Title

Betty Williams on women’s peace movement

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Aug 1976

Year of production

1976

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Duration

00:02:54

Description

Vivian White interviews Mrs Betty Williams about the women’s peace movement, which grew up in the wake of the deaths of the Maguire children in West Belfast. Williams denies being an organiser of the protest, saying it was just spontaneous, and stresses that the women’s target is all men of violence, not just the IRA. On being asked whether she is putting herself at personal risk, she replies that she is running a risk by just living in the community she lives in.

Contributors

Vivian White; Betty Williams

Keywords

Peace; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Violence; IRA; Demonstrations; Women; Peacebuilding; Women for Peace; Betty Williams; Maguire family

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