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Peace Process History

Interview with Tom Roberts for the BBC

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Audio interview with Tom Roberts, former UVF prisoner and Project Co-ordinator of EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre, by the BBC. The Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement provided a programme for the release of republican and loyalist prisoners if the paramilitary organisation they were affiliated with had established and maintained a ceasefire. Roberts discusses the difficulties of re-integrating these prisoners into society. This interview forms part of the BBC Northern Ireland A State Apart online resource which documents thirty years of peace and violence in Northern Ireland from the Troubles to the Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement.

Date of Release/Broadcast: Unknown

Name of First Interviewee: Tom Roberts

Role at time of Interview: Project Co-ordinator of EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre

Interviewer: Unknown

Purpose: News, Research

Media: Audio

Copyright: BBC © 2012

Link: Listen to the interview

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Northern Ireland A State Apart

Time Period covered: 1998-2000

Key Individuals: Tom Roberts, Gusty Spence

Key Words: Prisoner, unionist, paramilitary, reconciliation

 

 

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