Sile de Valera on Sands meeting

Title

Sile de Valera on Sands meeting

Genre

Interview

TX Date

21 Apr 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:04:56

Description

Eamonn Mallie interviews Irish TD and MEP, Sile de Valera about her visit to see IRA prisoner and hunger striker Bobby Sands in Maze Prison, Belfast. De Valera also talks about a possible meeting with the UK Government.

Contributors

Eamonn Mallie; Sile de Valera

Keywords

Death; Politics; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Ireland; UK; Political protests; Prisons; IRA; Members of Parliament; Protest movements; Fianna Fail; Europe; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Bobby Sands

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