Start of hunger strike at Maze Prison
- Title
- Start of hunger strike at Maze Prison
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- Oct 1980
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:02:59
- Description
- Eamonn Mallie reports from Northern Ireland on the start of a hunger strike by republican prisoners at the Maze Prison in Belfast in protest against the UK Government’s refusal to grant them political status. Second male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Eamonn Mallie
- Keywords
- Political prisoners; Government; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; British; Political protests; Republicanism; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Belfast
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LBC/IRN, "Start of hunger strike at Maze Prison". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006900383010 (Accessed 14 May 2025)