Maze Prison protest - Sile de Valera view
- Title
- Maze Prison protest - Sile de Valera view
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:01:36
- Description
- Speech by Irish Fianna Fail politician Sile de Valera in Letterkenney during campaigning for the Donegal by-election, on the condition of the Republican hunger strikers at the Maze Prison in Belfast and about the callous attitude of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the British Governement towards the protest.
- Contributors
- Sile de Valera
- Keywords
- Elections; Human rights; Government; Internal politics; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; UK; Political protests; Terrorists; Rights of prisoners; Prime ministers; Republicanism; Maze Prison; Prisoners; Belfast; Election campaigns; Donegal; Letterkenney
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