Audio interview with Graham Finlay, Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, by Sean Moncrieff for Newstalk’s Moncrieff on 17 April 2013. On 8 April 2013 former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher died. In the wake of Thatcher’s death Finlay discusses one of the most significant events in her policy on Northern Ireland: the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Moncrieff is Newstalk’s mid-afternoon magazine programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 17 April 2013
Name of First Interviewee: Graham Finlay
Role at time of Interview: Lecturer of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin
Interviewer: Sean Moncrieff
Purpose: News, Academic
Media: Audio
Copyright: © 2013 Newstalk
Link: Listen to the interview
Programme/Book/Article: Newstalk’s Moncrieff
Time Period covered: 1981-2013
Key Individuals: Margaret Thatcher, Garret FitzGerald, Charles Haughey, Ronald Reagan, Enoch Powell
Key Words: Anglo-Irish Agreement, New Ireland Forum, Sinn Fein, hunger strike, SDLP, IRA, Sunningdale Agreement, British government, Irish government