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Joe Doherty is from Belfast. He left school at fourteen and was interned during 1972 at age seventeen on the Maidstone Prison Ship and in Long Kesh Internment Camp. He was arrested and imprisoned in the Provisional IRA Cages (Compounds The Maze and Long Kesh Prison) from 1973 to 1979. He was re-arrested and escaped from Crumlin Road Gaol in 1981 was on the run in the USA then imprisoned in a US Federal Prison for nine years. In 1992 he was extradited and sent to the H blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) where he studied for five GCSEs and an A Level before starting an Open University degree in 1994. Joe was released in 1999 studied the ...final course for his degree and graduated with an honours degree in Social Sciences in 2000. He worked in the community and with young people gaining twenty six different accreditations in Youth and Community Work. In 2011 at the time of interview he worked for Coiste na nIarchimí and with other Republican and Loyalist ex-prisoner groups on the Consortium on Dealing with the Past.
Joe Doherty is from Belfast. He left school at fourteen and was interned during 1972 at age seventeen on the Maidstone Prison Ship and in Long Kesh Internment Camp. He was arrested and imprisoned in the Provisional IRA Cages (Compounds The Maze and Long Kesh Prison) from 1973 to 1979. He was re-arrested and escaped from Crumlin Road Gaol in 1981 was on the run in the USA then imprisoned in a US Federal Prison for nine years. In 1992 he was extradited and sent to the H blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) where he studied for five GCSEs and an A Level before starting an Open University degree in 1994. Joe was released in 1999 studied the ...final course for his degree and graduated with an honours degree in Social Sciences in 2000. He worked in the community and with young people gaining twenty six different accreditations in Youth and Community Work. In 2011 at the time of interview he worked for Coiste na nIarchimí and with other Republican and Loyalist ex-prisoner groups on the Consortium on Dealing with the Past.
| Title: | Would you be interested in Education? |
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| Description: | Joe Doherty recalls the change of culture and emphasis from prisoners doing military drilling in the Provisional IRA Compounds (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in the 1970s to the focus on education when he returned to prison in the Republican Wings of the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in the early 1990s and how he then started his Open University studies. | 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: | Joe Doherty |
| Duration: | 00:01:41 |
| Master programe code and title: | Joe Doherty Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:19:49 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:21:30 |
| Master programme production number: | 018_S_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
