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Pat Sheehan attended St Malachy’s College in Belfast where he gained O Levels. He was imprisoned aged nineteen in 1978 in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) and released in 1987. Pat was rearrested in 1989 and after two years in Crumlin Road Gaol went to the H Blocks where he became involved in education in 1991. He then completed GCSEs began studying Social Sciences and Philosophy with The Open University in 1992 and graduated with a first class honours degree in 1998. At time of interview in 2011 Pat was a Sinn Féin Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing West Belfast at the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Pat Sheehan attended St Malachy’s College in Belfast where he gained O Levels. He was imprisoned aged nineteen in 1978 in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) and released in 1987. Pat was rearrested in 1989 and after two years in Crumlin Road Gaol went to the H Blocks where he became involved in education in 1991. He then completed GCSEs began studying Social Sciences and Philosophy with The Open University in 1992 and graduated with a first class honours degree in 1998. At time of interview in 2011 Pat was a Sinn Féin Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing West Belfast at the Northern Ireland Assembly.
| Title: | Moral Philosophy is relevant in the political world |
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| Description: | Pat Sheehan studied Social Sciences and Philosophy with The Open University in the Republican Wings of the H Blocks in the 1990s. In this clip Pat reflects on the value to the political world in which he worked of studying Philosophy | 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: | Pat Sheehan |
| Duration: | 00:01:47 |
| Master programe code and title: | Pat Sheehan Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:18:55 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:20:42 |
| Master programme production number: | 028_S_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
