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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