Enoch Powell claims US plot aimed to unite Ireland

Title

Enoch Powell claims US plot aimed to unite Ireland

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

Nov 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:04:04

Description

Report on claims by Ulster Unionist MP, Enoch Powell that the USA had backed a plot, agreed with MI6, to unite Ireland, and was behind the deaths of Lord Mountbatten and Airey Neave. Includes excerpts of Powell’s speech, to a meeting of West Midlands Conservative students. Conservative MP, Jill Knight Birmingham Edgbaston) says Powell is fantasising; Irish nationalist politician Gerry Fitt says he is a man obsessed. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Enoch Powell; Gerry Fitt; Jill Knight

Keywords

USA; Politics; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; IRA; International relations; Airey Neave; Homicide; Louis Mountbatten; Republic of Ireland; Speeches; Unionism (Irish politics); Enoch Powell

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