McClean, Mairead (2009) For the record. [Creative Performance or Reading] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Northern Ireland, December 1956: The IRA launch a border campaign (Operation Harvest) from the south with the aim of overthrowing the Northern State and creating a United Ireland. PJ McClean is one of the first 32 men arrested in an attempt to curtail insurgent activity. He is not a member of the IRA nor is he accused of being one. However, the Northern Irish Government hold him for almost 4 years in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast.

"For the Record" tells his story some 50 years later.

Item Type:	Creative Performance or Reading
Uncontrolled Keywords:	internment, Northern Ireland, 1950's, memory, identity, oral history, imprisonment
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Humanities & Social Sciences School of Humanities & Social Sciences > Department of Communications & Creative Arts
Related URLs:	Organisation Organisation
Last Modified:	23 May 2022 09:24
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/2889

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