Irish Political Prisoners 1920-1962 - Pilgrimage of Desolation

List of contents

List of abbreviations. Author’s note. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1 Loyalties: Britain and Ireland. 2 Northern Ireland: ourselves alone. 3 Closing the books: Britain and Ireland, 1920 -6. 4 An instrument of war: Free State prisoners, 1922-4. 5 Women in prison. 6 The inter-war years in the South. 7 Northern Ireland: internment in the 1920s. 8 Imprisonment in Northern Ireland: the inter-war years. 9 The 1939-40 bombing campaign. 10 Internees in Northern Ireland, 1939-45. 11 Imprisonment in Northern Ireland, 1939-48. 12 A world at war: guarding the state. 13 Imprisonment and internment in Éire, 1939-48. 14 The Border Campaign, 1953-62. 15 Convicted prisoners in Northern Ireland and England, 1954-62. 16 Northern Ireland: internment, December 1956-April 1961. 17 Be careful what you wish: the Republic of Ireland in the 1950s. 18 Internment in the Republic of Ireland: July 1957-March 1959. 19 The desolated shrine. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Seán McConville is Professor of Law and Public Policy at Queen Mary, University of London. He has researched and taught at leading universities on both sides of the Atlantic. His interests and publications range widely, from Islamic criminal law to prison architecture, but have clustered around the philosophy and administration of punishment - historically, comparatively and in current debates. He is the author of the first in this trilogy Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922 (Routledge, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: Sean Mcconville, Sean (Queen Mary Mcconville, McConville Sean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780415350969
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35096-9
• No. of pages: 1184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political activism, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Offenders, Political activism / Political engagement