Date: 2021
Type: Thesis
State of exception : Northern Ireland in the 1970s
Florence : European University Institute, 2021, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis
GILBERT, Rosa Faith, State of exception : Northern Ireland in the 1970s, Florence : European University Institute, 2021, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71222
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Responding to the idea of Northern Ireland as ‘a place apart’ or ‘sui generis’, this thesis analyses various aspects of state repression in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, with one eye on how they unfolded and the other on contemporaneous and subsequent understandings of them. In doing so, the aim is to ‘de-provincialise’ Northern Ireland by challenging characterisations of it as singular or unique, and reading it into broader histories of both British domestic and foreign policy and European politics and diplomacy of that period. The extent to which repressive measures were justified by claims of exceptionality, and their relevance to European politics of the time, is assessed thematically: the use of emergency law, with a case study of the emergency laws passed to curb popular resistance to emergency measures; policing in Northern Ireland; the use of torture and its legal ramifications; and the prisons system.
Additional information:
Defence date: 13 May 2021; Examining Board: Professor Pavel Kolář (European University Institute/University of Konstanz); Professor Lucy Riall (European University Institute); Professor Marc Mulholland (University of Oxford); Dr Sean Brady, Birkbeck College (University of London)
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71222
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/099387
Series/Number: EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Northern Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Preceding version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/59611
Version: Chapter 2 ‘No Rent No Rates: Civil Disobedience and Emergency Law' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'No rent, no rates : civil disobedience against internment in Northern Ireland, 1971-1974' (2017) in the journal ‘Studi irlandesi : a journal of Irish studies’
