Terence O’Neill Unveils Plaque in Larne

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Location

Larne

Year

1964

Date

Production 25/04/1964

Length

29sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Some short silent footage of a ceremony which took place in Larne in April 1964. Prime Minister Terence O'Neill unveiled a plaque to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Larne gun-running incident when arms wereshipped into Larne on the SS Clyde Valley by the Ulster Volunteer Force during the "Home Rule Crisis" in 1914. Also present in the footage is government minister William Craig, who was the Stormont MP for the area, and ex-Unionist MP Sir Douglas Savory.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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