Transcript of an interview with Jim McCusker, former General Secretary of the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance, by Civic Voices Teaching Fellows for Civic Voices Memory Bank. McCusker discusses the impact of the Troubles on education, employment and trade unionism in Northern Ireland. Civic Voices is an international education project which seeks to highlight the significance of political and community activism to the development of peace and democracy around the world. The Memory Bank is an archive of personal testimony of those engaged in such political and community activism.
Date of Release/Broadcast: date not given
Name of First Interviewee: Jim McCusker
Role at time of Interview: Chairman of the Labour Relations Agency
Interviewer: Civic Voices Teaching Fellows
Purpose: Research, Academic
Media: Audio, Audiovisual, Transcript
Copyright: © Civic Voices 2011
Link: Access the resource
Programme/Book/Article: Civic Voices International Democracy Memory Bank
Key Individuals: Jim McCusker, Jim Larkin, James Connolly, Margaret Thatcher, John Galbraith, John Maynard Keynes
Key Words: Family, youth, education, Christian Brothers, civil service, trade union, Northern Ireland Economic Development Forum, strike, religion