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  • Short Summary

    A good item about a demonstration outside the Mountview Prison in Dublin.

  • Description

    Dublin, Ireland.

    Tense scenes outside Mountview Prison as crowds gather (possibly in connection with the Sinn Fein prisoners on hunger strike).

    L/S of the prison gates.

    L/S of a tank driving through the crowd outside the prison. L/S of armed soldiers holding back the crowd with bayonets, the tank hems them in and prevents them from escaping. A man in the crowd lifts himself up and brandishes the Irish flag at the soldiers, the crowd cheer - very evocative.

    L/S of an armed road block, in the distance we can see the crowd.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    208.37
    Media URN:
    21465
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    15/04/1920
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:58:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:45:01:00 / 01:45:59:00
    Canister:
    G 659

Comments (1)

  1. johnny_doyle Doyle says

    tag and description has Mountview instead of Mountjoy.

    Tank is a Mk V* from 17th (Armoured Car) Battalion, Tank Corps.

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