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Interview with Billy McQuiston, David Ervine and Sam Courtney by Barry Curran for Northern Visions

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 Video interviews with Billy McQuiston, David Ervine and Sam Courtney, former loyalist prisoners, by Barry Curran for Northern Visions. The interviewees discuss the impact of the blanket and hunger-strikes on their later attitudes towards the peace process. Northern Visions is a centre for media training in Belfast.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 13 December 2006

Name of First Interviewee: Billy McQuiston

Name of Second Interviewee: David Ervine

Name of Third Interviewee: Sam Courtney

Role at time of Interview: Billy McQuiston (community activist), David Ervine (leader of the PUP), Sam Courtney (former loyalist prisoner)

Interviewer: Barry Curran

Purpose: Research

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: Copyright 2013 © Northern Visions. All rights reserved.

Link: Watch the video

Programme/Book/Article: Northern Visions

Time Period covered: 1976-2006

Key Individuals: Billy McQuiston, David Ervine, Sam Courtney, Kieran Nugent, Margaret Thatcher, Bobby Sands

Key Words: UDA, prisoner, Maze/Long Kesh prison, loyalist hunger-strike, Special Category Status, blanket protest, paramilitary, Provisional IRA, sport, commemoration

 

 

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