Fitt Critical of Nationalist Party
EXHIBITION : NORTHERN IRELAND 1969
About this Item
Gerry Fitt, Republican Labour Party MP, is critical of the Nationalist Party attitude to partition.
- Title Republican Labour Manifesto
- 1st Broadcast 19/02/1969
- ContributorRonnie Turner (Reporter)
- Clip Duration 00:01:40
- Material Type Video
- Series title RTÉ News
- Clip title Fitt Critical of Nationalist Party
- Extended description
Gerry Fitt, Republican Labour Party MP, is critical of the Nationalist Party attitude to partition.
Fitt says that the Republican Labour Party believes in "the eventual reunification of this country and the uniting of the working class from Antrim to Cork".He also says Unionist policies are all the same but describes Captain O'Neill’s type of unionism as slightly blander than that of Paisley.
- Information
RTÉ News speaks to Gerry Fitt about the Republican Labour Party policies broadcast on 19 February 1969.
- Local keywords Northern Ireland, 1969, The Troubles, Stormont, Election, Gerry Fitt, Republican Labour Party, Nationalist Party,
- Geographical coverage Ireland, Belfast
- Genre News
- Topic Wars and Conflict
- Publisher Broadcaster RTÉ
- First broadcast channel RTÉ
- Production year 1969
- Country of production Ireland
- Original identifier N816/0069D
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- Item type part/extract
- Item colour Black and White
- Item sound Mono
- Aspect ratio 4:3
- Language used English (eng)
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