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Eoghan MacCormaic attended St Columb’s College in Derry and left in 1971 before taking his O Levels. He attended Derry Technical College on day release from employment and gained a City and Guilds and Ordinary National Certificate in Engineering. He was imprisoned in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in 1976 and after having been on the Blanket protest took O levels. He then studied Technology and Social Sciences with The Open University from 1984 to 1990 gaining an honours degree in Social Sciences. After his release in 1990 he gained a BSc in Celtic Studies from University College Galway. At the time of interview in 2011 he ...was a development worker with the Irish Language organisation Glór na nGael and was studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Translating and Editing in Irish.
Eoghan MacCormaic attended St Columb’s College in Derry and left in 1971 before taking his O Levels. He attended Derry Technical College on day release from employment and gained a City and Guilds and Ordinary National Certificate in Engineering. He was imprisoned in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in 1976 and after having been on the Blanket protest took O levels. He then studied Technology and Social Sciences with The Open University from 1984 to 1990 gaining an honours degree in Social Sciences. After his release in 1990 he gained a BSc in Celtic Studies from University College Galway. At the time of interview in 2011 he ...was a development worker with the Irish Language organisation Glór na nGael and was studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Translating and Editing in Irish.
| Gender: | Male |
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| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Project person ID: | 008_S |
| Interviewee role: | studied in prison, 1985-1990 |
| Location where studied: | H Blocks The Maze and Long Kesh |
