Story Title |
Tobacco Tin - Gerard Murray |
Story Available |
Yes |
Story Format |
Video |
Story Source |
The story has been deposited with Accounts of the Conflict. Also available: At website: http://www.healingthroughremembering.org/ooet/all/ On DVD: Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Times |
Interviewee Surname |
Murray |
Interviewee Forename(s) |
Gerard |
Language Spoken |
English |
Transcription |
No |
Interviewee Gender |
Male |
Age |
50+ |
Religion |
Catholic |
Marital Status |
Married |
Birth Country |
Northern Ireland |
Status |
Republican paramilitary; former Republican prisoner |
Story Abstract |
"Republican socialist prisoner Gerard Murray was jailed in Belfast’s Crumlin Road Prison in 1979. While he was inside Gerard made things from whatever he could find, including a tobacco tin which he made for his father in law." (from Ordinary Objects website). |
Themes/Topics Mentioned |
Prison |
Dates Mentioned |
July 1979 [1970s] |
Places Mentioned |
Crumlin Road Prison, Crumlin Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland |