Guthanna '81 | Voices of '81
The Irish Republican community reflect on the 1981 Hunger Strike. Caitheann an pobal Poblachtánach in Éirinn súil siar ar Stailc Ocrais 1981.
Guthanna '81 | Voices of '81
'The Role of the Catholic Church' - Fr Joe McVeigh
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Episode 9
Fermanagh-based priest, Father Joe McVeigh, is a life-long civil rights activist and Republican. In this episode, he looks back on the role of the Catholic Church during the time of the prison protests in the late-1970s, into the turbulent era of the 1980 and 1981 Hunger Strikes.