Oliver Hughes on Frankie Hughes’s hunger strike
- Title
- Oliver Hughes on Frankie Hughes’s hunger strike
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 2 May 1981
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:04:46
- Description
- Oliver Hughes, brother of Frankie Hughes who is on hunger strike in The Maze prison and close to death, says his brother embarked on the protest out of choice and is not being pressured by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Oliver Hughes
- Keywords
- Pope John Paul II; Health; Northern Ireland; Political protests; Prisons; IRA; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Bobby Sands; Frankie Hughes
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