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Long Kesh - what was life in a 1970s internment camp like?
6 minutes Posted Sep 15, 2025 at 3:08 pm.
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The University of Galway has unveiled a new digital archive revealing what life was like in an internment camp in the 1970s. The journals and photo albums were given to the college by Paddy McMenamin, who spent time in Long Kesh…

Archivist at the University of Galway Library, Dr Barry Houlihan has been pivotal in collating the material, and joins Seán to discuss.

Image: University of Galway