1st Edition
Irish Political Prisoners 1848–1922 Theatres of War
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Young Irelanders
2 Gentlemen convicts
3 The Fenians: a dream of revolution
4 The Fenians in prison
5 Amnesty: Gladstone takes a chance
6 The convict Michael Davitt
7 The dynamitards
8 The dynamitards in prison
9 The Easter rising
10 Internment: a training camp in Wales
11 Imprisonment: war by other means
12 Roger Casement: a question of honour
13 Sinn Féin, 1917-19
14 'Frightfulness': Ireland, 1919-22
15 Bang and whimper, 1919-22
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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.
"[A] scholarly and immensely readable account of three-quarters of a century of British experience of Irishmen - and very occasionally women - in their prisons."- Dr Garret FitzGerald, The Guardian
"Sean McConville graphically recounts both sides of this story - and does so with an even-handedness and objectivity that must command the respect of all his readers, whatever side of the Irish Sea they may be on." - Dr Garret FitzGerald, The Guardian“McConville has not shrunk from the challenge of an account that demands deep understanding of the political and administrative histories that shaped responses to the problem of political violence over long periods in Ireland and Britain. More than this, he embraces the work of capturing the modes of thinking, and the ways of living, of prisoners caught in the web of carceral institutions that made manifest those responses. These histories of the long saga of political imprisonment will remain a formidable testament to an era we may only hope we have now lost.” - Mark Finnane, Griffith University, 10:1 law&history
