Eamonn McCann: A Long March

In 1968 the youthful Eamonn McCann earned a reputation as a fiery orator at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland. After standing unsuccessfully for election over five decades he was finally catapulted to power at the age of 73 as a People Before Profit candidate in the Assembly election on 7 May 2016. By March 2017, he was an ordinary citizen once again, victim of a snap election in a crisis between the Orange and Green two-party bloc. The documentary looks back over the remarkable career of one of Northern Ireland’s best loved provocateurs, exploring the social and political landscape of his upbringing in Derry’s Bogside and revealing the inside story of his brief moment of governmental power, rising from street activist to parliamentarian and back to street activist again. 

Eamonn McCann: A Long March is part of Margo Harkin: Radical Witness on the IFI Archive Player. To view more of the collection, please click here.