Audio interview with Raymond McCartney and Pat Sheehan, former republican hunger-strikers, by Miriam O'Callaghan for RTE Miriam Meets...on 4 February 2011. McCartney and Sheehan reflect on their experiences in the IRA and the 1980-81 hunger-strikes. Miriam Meets...is a weekly interview style programme on RTE Radio 1.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 04 February 2011
Name of First Interviewee: Raymond McCartney
Name of Second Interviewee: Pat Sheehan
Role at time of Interview: Raymond McCartney (Sinn Fein MLA for Foyle), Pat Sheehan (Sinn Fein MLA for Belfast West)
Interviewer: Miriam O'Callaghan
Purpose: Research
Media: Audio
Copyright: © RTÉ 2011
Link: Listen to the interview
Programme/Book/Article: RTE Radio 1 Miriam Meets...
Time Period covered: 1969-2011
Key Individuals: Raymond McCartney, Pat Sheehan, Eddie McAteer, Kieran Nugent, Arlene Foster, Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Humphrey Atkins, Brendan Hughes, Bobby Sands, Brendan MacFarlane
Key Words: IRA, internment, Bloody Sunday, youth, hunger-strike, partition, prison, special category status, blanket protest, criminalisation, hunger-strike, media, Warrington bombings