Announcement of death of Airey Neave

Title

Announcement of death of Airey Neave

Genre

Speech

TX Date

30 Mar 1979

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:00:38

Description

Archive announcement by Labour MP, Michael Cox of the car bomb attack on shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Airey Neave (at this point still unidentified) in the House of Commons car park (30/03/79). Neave died of his wounds in hospital; the killing was later attributed to the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).

Contributors

Michael Cox

Keywords

Deaths; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Parliament; Terrorism; UK; Conservative Party; INLA; Airey Neave; Homicide; House of Commons; Members of Parliament; Politicians

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