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 and Barbara describes the work and determination of Elizabeth Kennedy to get educational facilities into Long Kesh.
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00:00:00.0 00:04:42.9 Barbara from USA, while studying in Trinity College became interested in Elizabeth Kennedy’s role of education provision for internees.
00:04:42.9 00:10:04.0 Elizabeth’s work as a lifelong learner and her role as a Probation Officer.
00:10:04.0 00:17:11.2 Elizabeth contacted the OU in August 1971. Logistics of arranging studies in Long Kesh.
00:17:11.2 00:22:30.9 Elizabeth as an OU student. Her plans for a centre to facilitate communication between groups.
00:22:30.9 00:27:43.2 In 1976 Elizabeth diagnosed with cancer, the following year had to give up her work. Tributes paid to her after her death showed how much she had impacted upon lives.
00:27:43.2 00:31:06.2 Last request was for donations to go to purchase Light Writer for OU, a machine to help people with disabilities to communicate.
Acknowledgement
This interview was originally conducted as part of The Open University Project “Time to Think: Open University Journeys in British and Irish prisons during the years of conflict, 1972-2000”
Further information about the project can be found here: https://www.open.ac.uk/library/digital-archive/exhibition/152.
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