Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000 - Braiding Rage and Sorrow

This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of Irish history and Irish political prisoners.

List of contents

Introduction 1. A Chronicle of Choices: 1966-72 2. Cherished Bondage: Republican Paramilitaries 3. Broken Faith: Loyalist Paramilitaries 4. Internment: The First Phase 5. Degradation, Ill-treatment and Torture 6. Tar Baby: Internment under Direct Rule 7. A New Battlefield 8. Loyalist Prisoners and Internees 9. In English Prisons 10. The English Hunger Strikes 11. Life in a Cold Climate 12. State Security and Irish Prisons 1969-1990 13. Subversives: Riots, Hunger Strikes and Escapes 14. The Pope's Divisions 15. Years of Protest 16. Possibilities of Transfiguration 17. Analogues

About the author

Seán McConville has researched and taught at major universities on both sides of the Atlantic and is currently Professor of Law and Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has published extensively on the history of punishment, as well as contemporary penal administration, including Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922 (2003) and Irish Political Prisoners 1920-1962 (2014).

Summary

This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of Irish history and Irish political prisoners.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Mcconville, Seán McConville, Sean (Queen Mary McConville
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2022
• EAN: 9780367697143
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69714-3
• No. of pages: 1050
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Political oppression & persecution, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General