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Mary McArdle is from Belfast. She left school with no qualifications and was imprisoned in Armagh Gaol and then Maghaberry Prison in the 1980s. She studied The Open University Community Education course Health Choices with a group of women in Maghaberry before beginning her degree studies in Social Sciences in 1988. She graduated with an honours degree in 1995 and completed a postgraduate module with The Open University before her release in 1997. She then worked in the Sinn Féin Prisoner of War Department on the release process for other prisoners as a result of the Good Friday Agreement.
Mary McArdle is from Belfast. She left school with no qualifications and was imprisoned in Armagh Gaol and then Maghaberry Prison in the 1980s. She studied The Open University Community Education course Health Choices with a group of women in Maghaberry before beginning her degree studies in Social Sciences in 1988. She graduated with an honours degree in 1995 and completed a postgraduate module with The Open University before her release in 1997. She then worked in the Sinn Féin Prisoner of War Department on the release process for other prisoners as a result of the Good Friday Agreement.
| Title: | A strip search and its impact on Open University study |
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| Description: | Mary McArdle describes the sense of achievement and confidence gained from her studies in prison and the impact of a strip search of Republican women in Maghaberry in the 1990s on her study of ‘Crime Justice and Society’. | 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: | Student D |
| Duration: | 00:01:58 |
| Master programe code and title: | Student D Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:17:20 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:19:18 |
| Master programme production number: | 041_S_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
