Thatcher on Maze hunger strike

Title

Thatcher on Maze hunger strike

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Dec 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:02:00

Description

Excerpt from interview by Peter Murphy of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recorded on 08/12/80 following talks with Taoiseach Charles Haughey and the Irish Government. Gives the Government stance on demands by the republican hunger strikers at the Maze Prison in Belfast.

Further information

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104458

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Murphy

Keywords

Political prisoners; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; UK; Political protests; Prisons; Terrorists; Rights of prisoners; Republicanism; Maze Prison; Hunger; Government policy; Prisoners; Belfast

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