Pamela Kane

Summary Pamela Kane grew up in a republican family in north Dublin. She recalls the formative impact of seeing how the nationalist population was treated when on childhood family holidays in her father's homeland of Tyrone. She became actively involved in the republican movement during the 1980s hunger strikes in Northern Ireland. At this time, Sinn Féin members were banned from the airwaves because of state censorship under Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act. To protest this, Kane and others scaled RTÉ's TV mast in a daring publicity stunt. She was arrested but released on probation. In 1990 she was arrested during a botched bank robbery in County Wexford, along with five others and was sentenced to ten years, part of which was served in the high-security Limerick Prison. She was released in 1995.

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Stars : Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Ite Ni Chionnaith Séanna Breathnach Henry McDonald

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Genres : Documentary

Countries of origin : Ireland

Official sites : Official website

Language : English Irish Gaelic

Production companies : Loopline Films

Summary Pamela Kane grew up in a republican family in north Dublin. She recalls the formative impact of seeing how the nationalist population was treated when on childhood family holidays in her father's homeland of Tyrone. She became actively involved in the republican movement during the 1980s hunger strikes in Northern Ireland. At this time, Sinn Féin members were banned from the airwaves because of state censorship under Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act. To protest this, Kane and others scaled RTÉ's TV mast in a daring publicity stunt. She was arrested but released on probation. In 1990 she was arrested during a botched bank robbery in County Wexford, along with five others and was sentenced to ten years, part of which was served in the high-security Limerick Prison. She was released in 1995.

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Genres : Documentary

Countries of origin : Ireland

Official sites : Official website

Language : English Irish Gaelic

Production companies : Loopline Films

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