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Interview with Gerry Fitt for RTE News in February 1969

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Video interview with Gerry Fitt, Republican Labour MP for Belfast West, for RTE News in February 1969. In that same month Terence O'Neill, leader of an increasingly divided Unionist Party, called a General Election in Northern Ireland. Fitt is interviewed about his election policy as a Republican Labour Party candidate for Belfast West.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 13 February 1969

Name of First Interviewee: Gerry Fitt

Role at time of Interview: Republican Labour MP for Belfast West

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: © RTÉ 2013

Link: Watch the interview

Programme/Book/Article: RTE News

Time Period covered: 1969

Key Individuals: Gerry Fitt, Ronald Bunting, Ian Paisley, James Connolly, Terence O'Neill

Key Words: Republican Labour Party, election, unionist, civil rights

 

 

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