Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow

ISBN-13: 9780415693103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 1050 str.

Sean McConville

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).