IRA hunger strike ends

Title

IRA hunger strike ends

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:04:50

Description

Report on the ending of the IRA hunger strike at the Maze prison. Includes reaction from Catholic priest Father Denis Faul; Sinn Fein spokesman Danny Morrison; an unidentified male Belfast MP; with references to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Jim Prior; those who died: Bobby Sands MP, Francis Hughes, Patsy O’Hara and Keiran Doherty. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Danny Morrison; Denis Faul

Keywords

Deaths; Government; Internal politics; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; British; Political protests; Prisons; IRA; Clergy; Sinn Fein; Jim Prior; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Catholicism; Bobby Sands; Patsy O’Hara; Francis Hughes; Martin Hurson; Keiran Doherty; Denis Faul

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