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Student E is from Belfast. He left school to take up an apprenticeship in Harland and Wolff as a shipyard fitter. He was imprisoned in 1977 in the H Blocks (The Maze and Long Kesh Prison) where he joined the Loyalist Blanket protest before moving to the ordinary wings in 1980 and getting involved in education. The first start to his Open University study of Social Sciences in 1982 was disrupted by turmoil in the prison. Subsequently he studied A Level Mathematics and then began his Open University degree with the Mathematics foundation course in 1989. He moved to Maghaberry Prison in 1990 and graduated with a degree in Mathematics in 1995 ...before his release in the same year. At the time of interview in 2011 he was employed as a Training and Development officer with responsibility for IT tutoring with a community organisation in Belfast.
Student E is from Belfast. He left school to take up an apprenticeship in Harland and Wolff as a shipyard fitter. He was imprisoned in 1977 in the H Blocks (The Maze and Long Kesh Prison) where he joined the Loyalist Blanket protest before moving to the ordinary wings in 1980 and getting involved in education. The first start to his Open University study of Social Sciences in 1982 was disrupted by turmoil in the prison. Subsequently he studied A Level Mathematics and then began his Open University degree with the Mathematics foundation course in 1989. He moved to Maghaberry Prison in 1990 and graduated with a degree in Mathematics in 1995 ...before his release in the same year. At the time of interview in 2011 he was employed as a Training and Development officer with responsibility for IT tutoring with a community organisation in Belfast.
| Gender: | Male |
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| Affiliation: | Loyalist |
| Project person ID: | 017_S |
| Interviewee role: | studied in prison, 1982 and 1989-1994 |
| Location where studied: | H Blocks The Maze and Long Kesh; Maghaberry Prison County Antrim |
