Interview with Billy McQuiston, David Ervine and Sam Courtney by Barry Curran for Northern Visions
Video interviews with Billy McQuiston, David Ervine and Sam Courtney, former loyalist prisoners, by Barry Curran for Northern Visions. The interviewees discuss the impact of the blanket and hunger-strikes on their later attitudes towards the peace process. Northern Visions is a centre for media training in Belfast.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 13 December 2006
Name of First Interviewee: Billy McQuiston
Name of Second Interviewee: David Ervine
Name of Third Interviewee: Sam Courtney
Role at time of Interview: Billy McQuiston (community activist), David Ervine (leader of the PUP), Sam Courtney (former loyalist prisoner)
Interviewer: Barry Curran
Purpose: Research
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: Copyright 2013 © Northern Visions. All rights reserved.
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Programme/Book/Article: Northern Visions
Time Period covered: 1976-2006
Key Individuals: Billy McQuiston, David Ervine, Sam Courtney, Kieran Nugent, Margaret Thatcher, Bobby Sands
Key Words: UDA, prisoner, Maze/Long Kesh prison, loyalist hunger-strike, Special Category Status, blanket protest, paramilitary, Provisional IRA, sport, commemoration