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The Carceral Network in Ireland

History, Agency and Resistance

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Fiona McCann

    1. CECILLE, University of Lille/Institut Universitaire de France, Lille, France

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  • Examines various forms of incarceration in Ireland from a unique, holistic perspective
  • Draws on mixed methods like semi-structured interviews, archival work, documentary analysis, and photographic analysis
  • Touches on timely topics like Direct Provision — a system of asylum seeker accommodation

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: A Decolonial Approach to Ireland’s Protean Carceral Network

    • Fiona McCann
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Dublin Intermediate Prison System

    • Emilie Berthillot
    Pages 21-45

  4. Shifting Carceral Formations: A Genealogy of Penal (Re)construction in the North of Ireland

    • Ruari-Santiago McBride
    Pages 47-74

  5. Rehabilitating the Prison: The Evolution of Strategies for Dealing with Northern Ireland’s Carceral Heritages

    • Chris Hamill
    Pages 75-90

  6. The Prisoners’ Rights Organisation and Penal Reform in the Republic of Ireland

    • Cormac Behan
    Pages 91-112

  7. ‘A Virtually Self-Contained Community’: Unorthodox Containment and Prisoner Autonomy in the Maze/Long Kesh Compounds

    • Erin Hinson
    Pages 113-132

  8. Gusty Spence: Agent of Conflict, Creativity, and Change

    • Connal Parr
    Pages 133-154

  9. Mairéad Farrell in the Armagh Gaol

    • Katherine Side
    Pages 155-177

  10. Stories from the Cells: The Role of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison in Peace Time Northern Ireland

    • Kate Keane
    Pages 179-204

  11. Acts of Survival and Resistance in Industrial and Reformatory Schools in Ireland in the Twentieth Century

    • Sinead Pembroke
    Pages 205-226

  12. The Room Where Nothing Makes Sense: Historiophobic Space and the Aesthetics of Child Maltreatment

    • Mathew Staunton, Deirdre Forde
    Pages 227-258

  13. Incarceration, Disavowal and Ireland’s Prison Industrial Complex

    • Ronit Lentin
    Pages 259-278

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 279-285
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About this book

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, the methodological approaches adopted across this book range from the historical and archival to the sociological, political, and literary. This edited collection touches on topics such as industrial schools, Magdalen laundries, struggles and resistance in prisons both North and South, Direct Provision, and the ways in which prison experiences have been represented in literature, cinema, and the arts. It sketches out an uncomfortable picture of the techniques for policing bodies deployed in Ireland for over a century. This innovative study seeks to establish a link between Ireland’s inhumane treatment of women and children, of prisoners, and of asylum seekers today, and to expose and pinpoint modes of resistance to these situations. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • CECILLE, University of Lille/Institut Universitaire de France, Lille, France

    Fiona McCann

About the editor

Fiona McCann is Professor of Postcolonial Literature at the Université de Lille, France. She has published widely on contemporary Irish, South African, and Zimbabwean literature and she has a particular interest in writing by political prisoners in the English-speaking postcolonial world.

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