Prisoners' Bodies : Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985 / Oisín Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Oisín, author.

Series:

States, people, and the history of social change ; Volume 11.

States, People, and the History of Social Change Series ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Civil rights.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Civil rights--Ireland--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Prisoners' Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners' movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

Contents:

Prisoners' Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985

Cover

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Content Note

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Prisoner's Two Bodies

Themes: Three Red Threads

What Is Communication?

Prison Discipline: Communicating without Words

Legitimate Voices: Encoding Trustworthiness

Asymmetric Communication

Retrieving Voices: The Challenges of Asymmetric Communication

The Literature on Irish Prison History

Structure

The Politics of Names

Absent Bodies: A Note to the Reader

Expanding the Prison System

Reform

Political Prisoners and The Troubles in the Republic of Ireland

'School for Revolution:' The Attica Prison Rebellion and Irish Public Discourse

Conclusion

1 'Join Your Prisoners' Union!': A Microhistory of Daniel Redmond and the Prisoners' Union, 1972-77

Introduction

Becoming a 'Hard Man' (1964-72)

'I Am Not Political, Far from It': Daniel Redmond and the Prisoners' Union (1972-73)

Hunger Strikes and the Prisoner's Union in the Curragh (1975)

A New Prisoners' Union in Mountjoy (1977)

Daniel Redmond: Coda

2 'A Voice for Prisoners': The Prisoners' Rights Organisation, 1973-76

What Did the PRO Do?

Who Were the PRO?

A Passive Voice?

3 'A Project against Authority': A Microhistory of Karl Crawley's Disruptive Autonomy

The PRO's Campaign for Karl Crawley

Karl Crawley's Early Life

'My Right to Resist'

'The Punishment Centre, Irish Style'

4 'The Beginning of the End': Protest, Rioting, and Revenge, 1979-86

The Prison Officers' Association

Prisoner Protest after the PU: Mountjoy, 1979.

Prisoners' Revenge Squad, 1979-86

Prisoners' Bodies and Antibodies: The 1986 Arbour Hill Riot

5 'It Is Doubtful If There Is a Single Prisoner or Ex-prisoner Here': The PRO's Sociological Turn, 1977-86

The Old Guard: McCartan, de Búrca, and Walsh

Respectability: Surveys and the MacBride Commission

'The Toilet Assumption:' The MacBride Commission Report (1980)

Partial Success: The Death Penalty (1981) and the Curragh (1981-83) Campaigns

Conclusion: The 'Crime Wave', Prison Expansion, and the Decline of the PRO

6 'What We Thought We Had Achieved': Whitaker, Reform, and the Legacy of the Prisoners' Rights Movement

The Establishment of the Whitaker Inquiry

The Reception of the Whitaker Report

The Implementation of the Whitaker Report

The Legacy of the Prisoners' Rights Movement

Epilogue: Communicating Bodies

Constructing Articulate Bodies

A Haunting Absence: Kevin and Paul Kenna

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780228023418

0228023416

9780228023401

0228023408

OCLC:

1437290874