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Interview with Martin McGuinness by Catherine Deveney for ITV Eye to Eye in 2000

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Video interview with Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland Minister of Education, by Catherine Deveney for ITV Eye to Eye in 2000. In this interview McGuinness charts his political evolution from IRA Volunteer to Minister for Education in Northern Ireland. Just over one week later Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, suspended devolved government and returned Northern Ireland to Direct Rule from Westminster following unsatisfactory progress on the decommissioning issue. Eye to Eye is an interview-style current affairs programme on ITV.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 1 February 2000

Name of First Interviewee: Martin McGuinness

Role at time of Interview: Minister for Education in Northern Ireland

Interviewer: Catherine Deveney

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

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Link: Watch the interview

Programme/Book/Article: ITV Eye to Eye

Time Period covered: 1968-2000

Key Individuals: Martin McGuinness, Seamus Cusack, Dessie Beattie

Key Words: Sinn Féin, partition, religion, education, civil rights, Unionist Party, British army, youth, Provisional IRA, Bloody Sunday, abstention, paramilitary, Real IRA, Continuity IRA

 

 

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