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Thousands of men are arrested and spend months behind the wire at Ballykinlar. What was life like there? Author Liam O Duibhir draws parallels with the recent past as he tells Tara and Declan about conditions in the camp: how men set up classes to learn Irish, music, shorthand and book-keeping - and how two internees plotted their escape.
By BBC News4
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Thousands of men are arrested and spend months behind the wire at Ballykinlar. What was life like there? Author Liam O Duibhir draws parallels with the recent past as he tells Tara and Declan about conditions in the camp: how men set up classes to learn Irish, music, shorthand and book-keeping - and how two internees plotted their escape.

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