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Open University Time to Think

Barbara Hart

Barbara Hart, from the USA studied for her PHD in Trinity College. She researched the life of Elizabeht Kennedy, a Probation Officer who suddenly found herself working in the newly opened internment camp

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Fra McCann with his mother when released from H Block Blanket Protest

Fra McCann

Fra talks about his life as a republican living on the Falls Road. He recalls the escalating conflict in the early 1970s, internment and Bloody Sunday.

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Pat McGinn

Pat McGinn

Pat talks about the life of Art McAlinden, a veteran republican from south Armagh. He had already spent over 20 years in prisons as a republican prisoner before being interned in August 1971 for two years.

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Liz McKee

Liz McKee

Liz recalls her experience as the first female to be interned in the 1970s. Her arrest and time spent in Armagh Gaol, including attempting to escape.

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Brendan McKenna

Brendan talks about his memories of the attack on students’ Civil rights march at Burntollet.

He describes being taken out of his home on August 9th 1971 and being interned for 20 months.

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