LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

SAS raid on Belfast house - Residents’ reaction

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Oct 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:07:51

Description

Eamonn Mallie interviews Moyra Berkery and John Boyd on their ordeal after being held at gunpoint by an SAS unit at their house in the Belfast Twinbrook housing estate (19/10/80). The two interviewees talk about a possible connection between the raid and the current hunger strike by republican prisoners at the Maze Prison in Belfast. In two parts, divided by break in audio.

Contributors

Eamonn Mallie; John Boyd; Moyra Berkery

Keywords

Political demonstrations; Armed forces; Northern Ireland; Maze Prison; Special forces; Hunger; Army; Prisoners; Guns; Firearms; Belfast; John Boyd; Aisling Berkery; Moyra Berkery

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