Seàn Mag Uidhir was a republican prisoner from 1976 to 1984 and then an activist until 1997, including a period as Sinn Féin cultural officer, three years working on the republican newspaper An Phoblact/Republican News and two years in the Sinn Féin Publicity Department.

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Accord Issue 8: Northern Ireland

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