The Carceral Network in Ireland: History, Agency and Resistance (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction: A Decolonial Approach to Ireland’s Protean Carceral Network (Fiona McCann)....Pages 1-19 The Dublin Intermediate Prison System (Emilie Berthillot)....Pages 21-45 Shifting Carceral Formations: A Genealogy of Penal (Re)construction in the North of Ireland (Ruari-Santiago McBride)....Pages 47-74 Rehabilitating the Prison: The Evolution of Strategies for Dealing with Northern Ireland’s Carceral Heritages (Chris Hamill)....Pages 75-90 The Prisoners’ Rights Organisation and Penal Reform in the Republic of Ireland (Cormac Behan)....Pages 91-112 ‘A Virtually Self-Contained Community’: Unorthodox Containment and Prisoner Autonomy in the Maze/Long Kesh Compounds (Erin Hinson)....Pages 113-132 Gusty Spence: Agent of Conflict, Creativity, and Change (Connal Parr)....Pages 133-154 Mairéad Farrell in the Armagh Gaol (Katherine Side)....Pages 155-177 Stories from the Cells: The Role of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison in Peace Time Northern Ireland (Kate Keane)....Pages 179-204 Acts of Survival and Resistance in Industrial and Reformatory Schools in Ireland in the Twentieth Century (Sinead Pembroke)....Pages 205-226 The Room Where Nothing Makes Sense: Historiophobic Space and the Aesthetics of Child Maltreatment (Mathew Staunton, Deirdre Forde)....Pages 227-258 Incarceration, Disavowal and Ireland’s Prison Industrial Complex (Ronit Lentin)....Pages 259-278 Back Matter ....Pages 279-285