Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922 : Theatres of War

ISBN-13: 9780415219914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 832 str.

Sean McConville

Opis

This is a wide-ranging study of political violence and the punishment of Irish political prisoners from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged from gentlemen revolutionaries to those who openly embraced terrorism or even full-scale guerilla war. Sean McConville provides a comprehensive survey of Irish revolutionary struggle, matching chapters on punishment of offenders with descriptions and analysis of their campaigns. Government's response to political violence was determined by a number of factors, including not only the nature of the offences but also interest and support from the United States and Australia, as well as current objectives of Irish policy. Drawing on archives and special collections, many of them hitherto unused by historians, McConville also looks at the part played by punishment in the development of Anglo-Irish relations.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 THE YOUNG IRELANDERS; Chapter 2 GENTLEMEN CONVICTS; Chapter 3 THE FENIANS; Chapter 4 THE FENIANS IN PRISON; Chapter 5 AMNESTY; Chapter 6 THE CONVICT MICHAEL DAVITT; Chapter 7 THE DYNAMITADS; Chapter 8 THE DYNAMITARDS IN PRISON; Chapter 9 THE EASTER RISING; Chapter 10 INTERNMENT; Chapter 11 IMPRISONMENT; Chapter 12 ROGER CASEMENT; Chapter 13 SINN FÉIN, 1917–19; Chapter 14 ‘FRIGHTFULNESS’; Chapter 15 BANG AND WHIMPER, 1919–22;

O autorze

Seán McConville is Professor of Criminal Justice and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on imprisonment and related political and legal issues, including work on Britain, Europe and the United States of America.