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Anthony McIntyre attended the first three years of grammar school and was imprisoned from age sixteen to eighteen in Crumlin Road Gaol Long Kesh Compounds and Magilligan Prison. He was imprisoned in the Compounds again in 1976 but as a result of an escape attempt lost Special Category status and was imprisoned in the H Blocks (The Maze and Long Kesh Prison) where he went on the Blanket protest until 1981. He gained his GCSEs in 1983 started his study of Social Sciences with The Open University in the Republican Wings of the H Blocks in 1984 and graduated with a first-class honours degree in 1991. He was released the following year and in 1...973 began his studies for a PhD on ‘Structural Analysis in Modern Irish Republicanism 1969 to 1973’ at Queen’s University which he gained in 1999.
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Title: You take yourself out of the cell by reading and studying
Description: Anthony McIntyre studied for his degree in Social Sciences with The Open University in the Republican Wings of the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison). He recalls studying as a way of taking himself out of his cell and remembers the pleasure of reading a novel for relaxation at the end of the day his Open University exams finished.
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Contributor: Anthony McIntyre
Duration: 00:01:17
Master programe code and title: Anthony McIntyre Interview
Master programme start time: 00:25:56
Master programme end time: 00:27:13
Master programme production number: 001_S_01
Available to public: yes