IRA hunger strike ends
- Title
- IRA hunger strike ends
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech; Special
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:08:45
- Description
- Report on the end of the IRA hunger strike at the Maze prison. Includes speeches and comment by Humphrey Atkins, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Danny Morrison, Sinn Fein; Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich; Michael Alison, Northern Ireland Minister; Alice McElwee, mother of hunger striker Thomas McElwee; Owen Carron, MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Also actuality of a demonstration outside the British Embassy in Dublin. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Humphrey Atkins; Michael Alison; Danny Morrison; Tomas O Fiaich; Owen Carron; Alice McElwee; Thomas McElwee
- Keywords
- Deaths; Government; Internal politics; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Ireland; British; Political protests; Prisons; IRA; Demonstrations; Prison reform; Sinn Fein; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Catholicism; Dublin; Bobby Sands; Francis Hughes; Martin Hurson
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