Sean Mcconville

Irish Political Prisoners, 1920-1962

Pilgrimage of Desolation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Irish Political Prisoners, 1920-1962 is the second in a three-volume set which offers a detailed and gripping overview of the political use of imprisonment in modern Ireland. Covering the period from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the release of the last border campaign prisoners, it draws extensively on archives and special collections in the three jurisdictions and interviews with survivors. Author Seán McConville analyses the divisive and bitter impact of the Irish Civil War and demonstrates how punishment came to shape the nationalist consciousness. Developments covered include the early years of security in Northern Ireland, IRA operations in the 1930s, the 1939 bombing campaign against Britain, wartime internment in Eire, and the 1956-62 border campaign. McConville tells the full story of the part played by political imprisonment in shaping Anglo-Irish relations and the intensification of IRA activity. This volume is an essential resource for all students of modern Irish history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 1184
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 64mm
• Gewicht: 1746g
• ISBN-13: 9780415350969
• ISBN-10: 0415350964
• Artikelnr.: 33609912

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.