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Interview with Raymond McCartney and Pat Sheehan by Miriam O'Callaghan for RTÉ Miriam Meets...on 4 February 2011

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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

 

 

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