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
'Thomas McElwee' - Chris Glackin
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Episode 24
Chris Glackin was a childhood friend of Thomas McElwee, the ninth Hunger Striker to die in 1981. They grew up in Bellaghy in south Derry, attending primary and secondary school together. He reflects here on the young man he knew who liked working at cars, who had a quick wit and humour and who enjoyed Sundays out on bicycles with his friends, before being imprisoned at the young age of 18.