dc.contributor.author | REINISCH, Dieter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-12T09:03:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-12T09:03:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | War and society, 2021, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 134-154 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0729-2473 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2042-4345 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70800 | |
dc.description | First published online: 29 March 2021 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Between 1973 and 1977, about 100 Provisional republican prisoners staged a series of violent prison protests and hunger strikes in the Republic of Ireland’s high-security prison, Portlaoise. Research on political imprisonment during the Northern Ireland conflict overwhelmingly focuses on the H-Blocks struggle. The Portlaoise Prison protests, thus, remain an under-researched area, largely ignored by academics, commentators, and the public. This article tells the story of these protests in Portlaoise by focussing on three periods: winter 1974/5, winter 1975/6, and spring 1977. The Portlaoise protests ended almost simultaneously with the start of the blanket- and no-wash-protests in the H-Blocks. This article is based on the testimonials of former Irish republican prisoners, statements of the republican movement, and interviews with former Portlaoise inmates. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | War and Society | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.title | The fight for political status in Portlaoise prison, 1973–7 : prologue to the H-Blocks struggle | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/07292473.2021.1906452 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 40 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 134 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 154 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |