LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Funeral of IRA victim, soldier Stephen Cummins

Genre

News report; Interview; Poetry

TX Date

16 Mar 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:45

Description

Report by Ian Henderson on the funeral of 24 year-old Lance Bombardier Stephen Cummins, who was killed in Londonderry by an IRA landmine (08/03/89). Cummins’s commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Fairman, talks about defeating the IRA; Carol Turley(?), the mother of Cummins’s fiancee, Debbie Berriman(?), talks about the impact of his death on her daughter. Clip includes excerpts from the reading of the poem, Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (probably by Mary Elizabeth Frye).

Contributors

Ian Henderson; Barry Fairman; Carol Turley(?)

Keywords

Northern Ireland; IRA; Funerals; Poetry; Family; Army; Soldiers; Stephen Cummins; Mary Elizabeth Frye

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