Seamie, a former internee, talks about the impact of internment and imprisonment on his family. His father, Jimmy, was interned in every decade from the 1930s to the 1970s.
His mother, Máire, was in prison for a time when his father was an internee, his younger sister was also in Armagh Prison.
Audio transcript
00:00:00.0 00:02:49.6 August 1971 the British army came to arrest him but he wasn’t at home so they took his brother instead. Describes the treatment his brother endured at that time.
00:02:49.6 00:04:55.7 Interned in November 1972. Held for 3 years.
00:04:55.7 00:06:42.1 Describes scenes when the camp was burnt in October 1974.
00:06:42.1 00:09:47.2 Talks about his father, Jimmy Drumm’s, period of internment.
00:09:47.2 00:11:15.6 Mother in Armagh Prison for a period when his father was interned.
00:11:15.6 00:13:44.1 Father interned in every decade from the 1930s to 1970s. Recalls stories of the prison ship Al Rawdah and Derry Gaol.
00:13:44.1 00:17:01.4 Discussing the changing demographics from the post World War housing shortage up to the 1970s. Internees families in 1950s isolated.
00:17:01.4 00:19:13.1 His mother, Maire Drumm, an active Gael quite often had to cope as a single mother.
00:19:13.1 00:21:57.8 As a child visiting his father in prison. After release his father had to go to England for work.
00:21:57.8 00:24:03.2 Young sister imprisoned in the 1970s. Mother and daughter in prison at the same time, father and son internees at same time.
00:24:03.2 00:25:50.7 His sister still in prison when their mother was murdered. Recalling the death of his mother.
00:25:50.7 00:29:00.9 Reflecting on the impact of internment and imprisonment on the family since the 1930s.
