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Kay Muhr grew up in East Anglia but discovering that these islands held other native languages besides English she gained a MA and PhD in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh. After fellowships at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the Institute for Irish Studies Belfast she became a researcher on the Ordnance Survey Memoir Project and then Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project at Queen’s University 1984-2010. Kay tutored Linguistics modules for The Open University between 1985 and 2006 and tutored students in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison between 1986 and 1992. At time of... interview in 2013 she was working as researcher and editor of Gaelic surnames for the Dictionary of Family Names of Britain and Ireland published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Kay Muhr grew up in East Anglia but discovering that these islands held other native languages besides English she gained a MA and PhD in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh. After fellowships at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the Institute for Irish Studies Belfast she became a researcher on the Ordnance Survey Memoir Project and then Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project at Queen’s University 1984-2010. Kay tutored Linguistics modules for The Open University between 1985 and 2006 and tutored students in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison between 1986 and 1992. At time of... interview in 2013 she was working as researcher and editor of Gaelic surnames for the Dictionary of Family Names of Britain and Ireland published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
| Title: | Reflections on Irish language in the H Blocks |
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| Description: | Kay Muhr tutored linguistics modules in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison between 1986 and 1992 for The Open University. In this clip she describes reflecting with her Open University student in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison about the use of the Irish language in the H Blocks by Republicans and how Prison Officers realised it might be useful if they learnt some Irish too | 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: | Kay Muhr |
| Duration: | 00:01:32 |
| Master programe code and title: | Kay Muhr Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:12:35 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:14:07 |
| Master programme production number: | 069_T_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
