{"id":12,"date":"2020-03-31T10:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T10:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prisonmemoryarchive.flywheelsites.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:11:06","slug":"about-the-pma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/prisonsmemoryarchive\/about-the-pma\/","title":{"rendered":"About the PMA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) is a collection of filmed walk-and-talk recordings with those who had a connection with Armagh Gaol and Maze and Long Kesh during the conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland \/ the North of Ireland. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn 2006 and 2007, the filmmakers invited an inclusive range of people \u2013 loyalist and republican former prisoners and internees, prison officers and governors, visitors, educators, journalists, probation officers, welfare workers, and chaplains \u2013 to revisit the prison sites and recount their experiences there. The result is a rich, multi-narrative collection that preserves personal memories of these historical sites from different viewpoints. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the recordings, participants recall numerous aspects of the prisons during the conflict. Themes include the experience of internment; everyday life for prisoners and prison officers; the culture of different organisations in the prisons; education, art and crafts; and the architecture and facilities of the prisons as they changed over time. Many participants offered deeply personal recollections of some of the most challenging and momentous events in recent history. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks to a partnership between the Public Record Office (PRONI) and Queen\u2019s University Belfast, supported by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the PMA collection is now preserved and available to the public. Full recordings, catalogued in detail, can be viewed at PRONI. The PMA website features numerous extracts, education resources, short- and feature-length documentary films, interactive maps of the prison sites and background to the prisons during the conflict. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Led by the PMA Director, Cahal McLaughlin, many people have worked on the PMA over the years. Small film crews set up at each prison site to record participants\u2019 stories in 2006 and 2007. In the years since, researchers, archivists, film editors and outreach staff have been working to catalogue, document and curate the archive for future generations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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