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Barbara Hart is from Portland Oregon and gained her PhD from Trinity College Dublin. She researched the life of Elizabeth Kennedy while she was a student at Trinity College in 2011. Elizabeth Kennedy was Senior Welfare Officer in Long Kesh Internment Camp and the Compounds (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) 1971-1977. She was instrumental in getting educational facilities for the internees and inviting The Open University to offer courses to the internees in 1972. Elizabeth organised voluntary lecturers to come in to the Compounds to give classes for sentenced prisoners in the early 1970s and was involved in negotiations in 1973 for Open Univ...ersity courses to be studied by Special Category prisoners. Elizabeth studied Humanities with The Open University 1975-1976 retired in 1977 due to ill health and died in 1978.
Barbara Hart is from Portland Oregon and gained her PhD from Trinity College Dublin. She researched the life of Elizabeth Kennedy while she was a student at Trinity College in 2011. Elizabeth Kennedy was Senior Welfare Officer in Long Kesh Internment Camp and the Compounds (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) 1971-1977. She was instrumental in getting educational facilities for the internees and inviting The Open University to offer courses to the internees in 1972. Elizabeth organised voluntary lecturers to come in to the Compounds to give classes for sentenced prisoners in the early 1970s and was involved in negotiations in 1973 for Open Univ...ersity courses to be studied by Special Category prisoners. Elizabeth studied Humanities with The Open University 1975-1976 retired in 1977 due to ill health and died in 1978.
| Title: | We have got to get The Open University in here |
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| Description: | Barbara Hart biographer of Elizabeth Kennedy describes Elizabeth's work in Long Kesh Internment Camp and her invitation to The Open University to teach there in 1972. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Barbara Hart/Elizabeth Kennedy |
| Duration: | 00:01:59 |
| Master programe code and title: | Barbara Hart/Elizabeth Kennedy Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:00:30 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:02:07 |
| Master programme production number: | 086_O_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
