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43 results found for '"Rights of prisoners"' in Keywords.
Maze Prison protest - Sile de Valera view (1980)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Irish Fianna Fail politician Sile de Valera in Letterkenney during campaigning for the Donegal by-election, on the condition of the Republican hunger strikers at the Maze Prison in Belfast and...
Donegal by-election - speech on hunger strikes (1980)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by a male Irish politician (not identified - poss. Taoiseach Charles Haughey?), in Letterkenney during campaigning for the Donegal by-election, referring to the Republican hunger strike at the Maze...
Thatcher on Maze hunger strike (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Excerpt from interview by Peter Murphy of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recorded on 08/12/80 following talks with Taoiseach Charles Haughey and the Irish Government. Gives the Government stance on...
Former POW on compensation (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with former German Prisoner of War, James Smalley, on money still owed to POWs by the British Government under the terms of the Geneva Convention. The money was deducted from pay while they were...
Tackling prison overcrowding (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on measures being taken to tackle overcrowding in British gaols. With comment from Secretary of Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP), Jim Cogan; and Prison Officers Association District...
British prison crisis (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the crisis in British prisons. Prison Officer’s Association District Secretary at Strangeways Prison, Peter Hancocks(?) and Prison Warder Brian Baldwin, comment on conditions at the prison and...
Reaction to prison governor’s letter (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on the reaction to a letter to The Times newspaper (19/11/81) by John McCarthy, Governor of Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London, in which he described the prison as being like a penal dustbin. Speakers...
Tony Fitzpatrick on solutions to prison overcrowding (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Prison governors’ spokesman Tony Fitzpatrick on overcrowding in prisons. He says the system cannot cope with the number of inmates, and he is proposing early release for the majority of prisoners. Male...
Owen Carron on his election as Anti H-Block candidate (1981)
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- Interview
Owen Carron, the newly-elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Carron was formerly the election agent for H-Block hunger striker Bobby Sands, who won the election but died soon afterwards. Carron stood at...
US gun-running case (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the trial of gun-runners for the IRA Colm Meehan and Eamon Meehan in America (with 2 other defendants). They are claiming insanity after being imprisoned and (they claim) tortured in Northern...