Owen Carron refused meeting with Prime Minister
- Title
- Owen Carron refused meeting with Prime Minister
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 27 Aug 1981
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:04:59
- Description
- Owen Carron, newly-elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, on the IRA hunger strike in H-block of the Maze prison and his request to meet with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which was turned down in favour of a meeting with the prisons minister for Northern Ireland, Michael Alison. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Owen Carron
- Keywords
- Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Political protests; Prisons; IRA; Members of Parliament; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Fermanagh and South Tyrone; Michael Alison
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