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'Introspection and self-pity weren’t encouraged in prison'
Ronan Bennett tells Michael Berkeley how writing enabled him to express his experiences of wrongful imprisonment in Long Kesh Prison in the 1970s, following his turbulent experiences growing up as a Catholic boy in Belfast during The Troubles.
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