Trying to get time to listen to this. It is quite long. Probably best to download it onto the phone and listen to while walking. Immensely honoured to have accompanied Seamus on that particular journey.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
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Excellent story.
ReplyDeleteTrying to get time to listen to this. It is quite long. Probably best to download it onto the phone and listen to while walking. Immensely honoured to have accompanied Seamus on that particular journey.
ReplyDelete44 years ago today I joined Seamus and the lads in H4 on the blanket protest. Such a day to go it - the Twelfth!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a great watch.
ReplyDeleteI'd highly recommend it.
I am listening to it at the minute. Lot of fascinating stuff there.
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