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