Sile de Valera on H-Block hunger strikers
- Title
- Sile de Valera on H-Block hunger strikers
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 2 May 1981
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:04:48
- Description
- Dublin MEP, Sile de Valera says the British Government should give in to the demands of hunger strikers in the Maze Prison. She says Irish prisoners in Britain already have special category status, therefore it should be reinstated at the Maze. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Sile de Valera
- Keywords
- Government; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; British; Political protests; Prisons; IRA; Maze Prison; Hunger; Prisoners; Bobby Sands; Patsy O’Hara; Frankie Hughes
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