On the 29th June 2021, Future Tuesdays welcomed Dr Conor McCafferty, Project Manager of the Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) presented the recently launched website hosting oral histories and documentation from their project developed over a number of years.
The website, launched in 2020, houses the PMA’s collection of walk-and-talk recordings with people who had a connection with the Maze and Long Kesh and Armagh Gaol during the conflict in Northern Ireland / the North of Ireland. The full collection of PMA recordings is now housed in the Public Record Office (PRONI). The new website, co-produced by staff at Queen's University and PMA participants, and produced with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, aimed to improve accessibility and introduce new audiences to the PMA.
In the talk, Dr Conor McCafferty, Project Manager of the Prisons Memory Archive at the time and now a member of the PMA's Advisory Group, discussed the development of the website as part of the broader public engagement aims of the project - and the importance of the PMA's ethical framework in guiding the original recordings and subsequent public engagement work.
The Prisons Memory Archive website can be found here: