LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Funeral of Aidan McAnespie

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

23 Feb 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:18

Description

Report by Mervyn Jess on the funeral in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, of Aidan McAnespie, shot dead at a UK army checkpoint (21/02/88). Includes sermons by local priest, Seamus McManus; Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, in which he launches a stinging attack on the British security forces in Northern Ireland. Broadcast on Downtown Radio.

Contributors

Downtown Radio; Tomas O Fiaich; Mervyn Jess; Seamus McManus

Keywords

Deaths; Northern Ireland; Ireland; UK; Great Britain; International relations; Funerals; Army; Catholicism; Aidan McAnespie; Aughnacloy; County Tyrone

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