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Eoghan MacCormaic attended St Columb’s College in Derry and left in 1971 before taking his O Levels. He attended Derry Technical College on day release from employment and gained a City and Guilds and Ordinary National Certificate in Engineering. He was imprisoned in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in 1976 and after having been on the Blanket protest took O levels. He then studied Technology and Social Sciences with The Open University from 1984 to 1990 gaining an honours degree in Social Sciences. After his release in 1990 he gained a BSc in Celtic Studies from University College Galway. At the time of interview in 2011 he ...was a development worker with the Irish Language organisation Glór na nGael and was studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Translating and Editing in Irish.
Eoghan MacCormaic attended St Columb’s College in Derry and left in 1971 before taking his O Levels. He attended Derry Technical College on day release from employment and gained a City and Guilds and Ordinary National Certificate in Engineering. He was imprisoned in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in 1976 and after having been on the Blanket protest took O levels. He then studied Technology and Social Sciences with The Open University from 1984 to 1990 gaining an honours degree in Social Sciences. After his release in 1990 he gained a BSc in Celtic Studies from University College Galway. At the time of interview in 2011 he ...was a development worker with the Irish Language organisation Glór na nGael and was studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Translating and Editing in Irish.
| Title: | There are things out there that you never had time to think about |
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| Description: | Eoghan MacCormaic recalls how he found certain Geography courses very interesting and reflects on how those courses and education more generally helped him see patterns in things he would not have thought of before. | 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: | Eoghan MacCormaic |
| Duration: | 00:01:29 |
| Master programe code and title: | Eoghan MacCormaic Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:09:34 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:11:03 |
| Master programme production number: | 008_S_02 |
| Available to public: | yes |
