Overview
- 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)
Keywords
- political prisoners
- irish prisons
- history of ireland
- prison reform
- prison policy
- prison architecture
- conflict in ireland
- incarceration
- protest
- human rights
- prison development
- prison photography
- memory
- gender and power
- industrial schools
- peace
- confinement
- prison narratives
- Irish literature
- British and Irish Literature
- British Politics
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Carceral Network in Ireland
Book Subtitle: History, Agency and Resistance
Editors: Fiona McCann
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42184-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42183-0Published: 27 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42186-1Published: 27 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42184-7Published: 26 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 285
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, History of Britain and Ireland, Human Rights and Crime , Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, British and Irish Literature, British Politics