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Robert (Rab) Kerr is from Belfast. He left school at fifteen was imprisoned on a number of occasions in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) and spent a total of eighteen years there between 1977 and 1997. He studied Social Sciences with The Open University in 1985 and 1986 then Technology courses in 1992 and 1993. After his release he was involved in a local history project in Belfast and completed courses in Computing and IT in 2013. At the time of interview in 2013 he had published Three Gaols: Images of Crumlin Road Long Kesh and Armagh Prisons and was in the process of writing The Belfast Mural Guide which was subsequently pub...lished in 2014.
Robert (Rab) Kerr is from Belfast. He left school at fifteen was imprisoned on a number of occasions in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) and spent a total of eighteen years there between 1977 and 1997. He studied Social Sciences with The Open University in 1985 and 1986 then Technology courses in 1992 and 1993. After his release he was involved in a local history project in Belfast and completed courses in Computing and IT in 2013. At the time of interview in 2013 he had published Three Gaols: Images of Crumlin Road Long Kesh and Armagh Prisons and was in the process of writing The Belfast Mural Guide which was subsequently pub...lished in 2014.
| Title: | It was gold dust! |
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| Description: | Robert Kerr describes his reasons for studying the Social Sciences Foundation Course D102 in the Republican Wings of the H Blocks (The Maze and Long Kesh Prison) in the 1980s his enjoyment of the content and memories of writing his first assignment. | 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: | Robert Kerr |
| Duration: | 00:01:41 |
| Master programe code and title: | Robert Kerr Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:12:34 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:14:14 |
| Master programme production number: | 032_S_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
