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Interview with Gerry Adams by Fred Emery for BBC Panorama in 1982

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Video interview with Gerry Adams, vice president of Sinn Féin, by Fred Emery for BBC Panorama in 1982. In April of that year the Provisional IRA detonated bombs in Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt killing two and injuring 12 while further bombs at Hyde Park and Regent’s Park in London in July killed 11 British soldiers and injured many civilians. In this interview Adams discusses the attitude of the republican movement to violence and the future development of Sinn Féin. Panorama is a BBC current affairs programme and the world’s longest running public affairs programme on television.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 22 November 1982

Name of First Interviewee: Gerry Adams

Role at time of Interview: Vice president of Sinn Féin

Interviewer: Fred Emery

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: BBC © 2013

Link: Watch the video

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Panorama

Time Period covered: 1982

Key Individuals: Gerry Adams, William Whitelaw, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Tim Pat Coogan, Ian Paisley, Harold McCusker, James Prior

Key Words: Sinn Féin, IRA, unemployment, internment, British army, British government, UDR, RUC

 

 

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