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IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS,
19201962

Irish Political Prisoners presents a detailed and gripping overview of political imprisonment from 1920 to 1962. Sen McConville examines the years from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the release of the last Border Campaign prisoners in 1962.

Drawing extensively and, in many cases, uniquely on archives and special collections in the three jurisdictions, and interviews with survivors from the period, McConville demonstrates how punishment came to embody and shape the nationalist consciousness. Irish Political Prisoners 19201962 commences with the legacy of the Anglo Irish and Irish Civil Wars militancy, division and bitterness. The book travels from the embedding of Northern Irelands security agenda in the 1920s, and the IRAs search for a role in the 1930s (including the 1939 bombing campaign against Britain) to the decisive use of internment during the war and the Border Campaign years. This volume will be an essential resource for students of Irish history and is a major contribution to the study of imprisonment.

Sen 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 18481922 (Routledge, 2003).

ALREADY PUBLISHED

A History of English Prison Administration

Volume I: 17501877

English Local Prisons, 18601900

Next Only to Death

Irish Political Prisoners, 18481922

Theatres of War

First published 2014 by Routledge

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First issued in hardback 2019

Copyright 2014 Sen McConville

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

McConville, Sen, 1943-

Irish political prisoners, 1920-1962 : pilgrimage of desolation / Sen McConville.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Political prisoners--Ireland--History. 2. Political prisoners--England--History. 3. Political violence--Ireland--History. 4. Government, Resistance to--Ireland--History. 5. Punishment--England--History. 6. Irish question. I. Title.

HV9650.3.M333 2013

365.450941509041--dc23

2013027592

ISBN: 978-0-415-35096-9 (hbk)

Typeset in Baskerville

by Taylor & Francis Books

FOR FIONA McCONVILLE AND
SARAH WEBLEY

CONTENTS

This table shows reading paths by topic, theme and interest thread.

CID	Criminal Investigation Department
CPGB	Communist Party of Great Britain
CRO	Commonwealth Relations Office
DORA	Defence of the Realm Act
DPP	Director of Public Prosecutions
EOKA	Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston
GAA	Gaelic Athletic Association
GCE	General Certificate of Education
GHQ	General Headquarters
GOAD	good order and discipline
GOC	General Officer Commanding
GOIA	Government of Ireland Act
GPO	General Post Office
HMG	His/Her Majestys Government
ICRC	International Committee of the Red Cross
IRA	Irish Republican Army
IRB	Irish Republican Brotherhood
IRPDF	Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund
IRPDRC	Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Reconstruction Committee
ISDL	Irish Self-Determination League
NAI	National Archives of Ireland
NDU	North Dublin Union
NIPD	Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates
NLI	National Library of Ireland
OASA	Offences Against the State Act
OAS(A)A	Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act
OC	Officer Commanding
OTC	Officers Training Corps
PD	preventive detention
POA	Prison Officers Association
POW	Prisoner of War
PP	Parliamentary Papers
PPC	Political Prisoners Committee
PRO	Public Record Office (now National Archives)
PRONI	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
RAF	Royal Air Force
REME	Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
RIC	Royal Irish Constabulary
ROIA	Restoration of Order in Ireland Act
RUC	Royal Ulster Constabulary
SS	steamship
TD	Teachta Dla (member of the Dil)
UCDA	University College Dublin Archives
UPA	Ulster Protestant Association
USS	United States ship
UVF	Ulster Volunteer Force
WPDL	Women Prisoners Defence League

I offer some reflections on the substance of the work in the Introduction and wish here only to address usage and a few other matters.

The Irish state had three names during the years covered by this study. With independence in 1922 it chose to be known as the Irish Free State, a direct translation from the Irish, Saorstt ireann. When a new constitution was adopted in 1937, the name changed to ire (translated as Ireland), and then in 1948, with further constitutional change, it became the Republic of Ireland. Writing across these decades I have of course used the name officially established at the time to which the text refers. In addition to this, I have in places, for convenience and ease of style, adopted common usage, referring to the state as the South.

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