| Description | Track 1: recording setup 0.14 mins
Interview with unidentified man from Derry, continued from the previous tape. He continues to talk about his university education and expectations to go to London and get out of Derry. He talks about the existance of an Irish sub culture in London and his belief that many people involved in Irish emigre politics because they want to keep the connection with Ireland. He describes gaining a different perspective on politics through the trade union movement and the difficulty of uniting the working class in Northern Ireland. He goes on to talk about his view of the history of 'Ulster' from the seventeenth century, the poverty that many working class people on both sides of the sectarian divide live in, and the inability of working class people to unite. He discusses his views about the Unionist perspective and how Protestant people identify themselves. He does not see parallels between the situation in Northern Ireland and the black civil rights struggle in America but describes the extent of integration between Catholic and Protestant communities, religious mixed marriages, the softening of attitudes amongst emigres, the social and religious backgrounds of students at Queens University, the likelihood of any political and social reform in Derry and the politicisation of people in Northern Ireland (tracks 2-9)
Track 10: recording setup 0.22 mins
He continues to talk about the political situation in Northern Ireland, Nationalist and Unionist realignment, the stirring of class consciousness amongst disaffected Unionists and the composition of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. He gives his view about the strategy of the civil rights movement which has attracted some middle class liberal Protestants. He thinks that the civil rights movement need to work with the Paisley supporters in order to move forward. Another man joins the conversation to give his opinion about the future direction of the civil rights movement, which he thinks should be aligned with the working class across the sectarian divide. Both men think that uniting only the Catholic working class will alienate people and will only help the Unionists to mobilise against them. They give their opinion about the objectives and political beliefs of Bernadette Devlin, discuss the preparedness of many people to go outside the normal processes of democracy, with some ideological leadership, and talk about their view that the civil rights movement has become affected by sectarian prejudice (tracks 11-18).
Total: 32.49 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0080880 |