Video interview with James Chichester-Clark (Prime Minister of Northern Ireland), Brian Faulkner (Northern Ireland Minister of Development) and Robert Porter (Northern Ireland Minister of Home Affairs) for RTE News in September 1969. In August of 1968 the Northern Ireland civil rights movement began public marches in support of its objectives causing community tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Following violent clashes at People’s Democracy marches in Derry/Londonderry and Newry in January 1969, Terence O’Neill established an independent enquiry into the disturbances, the Cameron Commission. Its report concluded that Catholics in Northern Ireland were discriminated against by Unionist policies in employment, housing and voting but also stated that the IRA were an influence in the beginning of the civil rights movement. Chichester-Clark, Faulkner and Porter discuss the report at a press conference.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 12 September 1969
Name of First Interviewee: James Chichester-Clark
Name of Second Interviewee: Brian Faulkner
Name of Third Interviewee: Robert Porter
Role at time of Interview: James Chichester-Clark (Prime Minister of Northern Ireland), Brian Faulkner (Northern Ireland Minister of Development), Robert Porter (Northern Ireland Minister of Home Affairs)
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: © RTÉ 2013
Link: Watch the interview
Programme/Book/Article: RTE News
Time Period covered: 1968-1969
Key Individuals: James Chichester-Clark, Brian Faulkner, Robert Porter, Ian Paisley, Ronald Bunting
Key Words: Civil rights, Cameron Commission, IRA, religion, Unionist Party