John Major on Northern Ireland peace talks

Title

John Major on Northern Ireland peace talks

Genre

Speech

TX Date

15 Nov 1994

Year of production

1994

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:00:48

Description

Excerpt of speech by Prime Minister, John Major at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the Mansion House, announcing exploratory peace talks before Christmas between the UK Government and Sinn Fein and loyalist paramilitary groups. Warns of the dangers and need for weapons decommissioning following the recent murder of Frank Kerr, Post Office worker in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland (later claimed by the IRA).

Contributors

John Major

Keywords

Government; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; IRA; Homicide; Sinn Fein; Weapons; Conflict resolution; Peacebuilding; County Down; Newry; Frank Kerr

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.