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Learning behind Bars Dieter Reinisch

Learning behind Bars By Dieter Reinisch

Learning behind Bars by Dieter Reinisch

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This book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they shaped the peace process from within the internment camps and prisons.

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Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland by Dieter Reinisch

Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year internment was introduced, and 2000, when the high-security Long Kesh Detention Centre/HM Prison Maze closed. Dieter Reinisch outlines the role of politically motivated prisoners in ending armed conflicts as well as the personal and political development of these radical activists during their imprisonment.

Based on extensive life-story interviews with Irish Republican Army (IRA) ex-prisoners, the book examines how political prisoners developed their intellectual positions through the interplay of political education and resistance. It sheds light on how prisoners used this experience to initiate the debates that eventually led to acceptance of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Politically relevant and instructive, Learning behind Bars illuminates the value of education, politics, and resistance in the harshest of social environments.

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"Learning behind Bars is an interesting, informative and scholarly work."

-- Gerry Moriarty * Irish Times *

"..with its chronological panorama, and the geographical and organisational range of its interview partners, Reinischs book offers a valuable perspective on the experiences of republican prisoners at the periphery of the movement his book is of undoubted value for scholars of the Northern Ireland conflict and, more broadly, for analysts of incarceration and the internal dynamics of militant social movements."

-- Jack Hepworth, St Catherines College, Oxford * Oral History Journal *

"This is an important account of the role of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners who were imprisoned on both sides of the Irish border who were instrumental in starting the critical debate that ultimately contributed to resolving the Northern Ireland conflict through the 1994 Provisional (IRA) ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998."

-- Joshua Sinai * Perspectives on Terrorism *

"Drawing on the experience of learners and employing a framework which enables generalisations to be made from the particularities of Ireland, Dieter Reinisch makes a powerful case for the value of education in prisons for prisoners, prisons, and the wider society."

-- Daniel Weinbren, Open University * Journal of Prison Education and Reentry *

About Dieter Reinisch

Dieter Reinisch is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Irish Prison Arena: Republican Prisoners and the Northern Ireland Conflict
2. Portlaoise is an example for this: Portlaoise Prison Protests, 19737
3. No prisoner has the right to advance the education of another: Education in Portlaoise Prison
4. The Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann: Sinn Fein in Portlaoise Prison, 197886
5. He was just rhyming off pages of it: Internment and the Brownie Papers, 19717
6. Marxist Esperanto and Socialism in Cell 26: Reading, Thinking, and Writing in the H-Blocks, 19839
7. It's only when you look back : The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Peace Process in the 1990s

Conclusion: An Irish Century of Camps

Interview Partners
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NGR9781487545826
9781487545826
1487545827
Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland by Dieter Reinisch
Dieter Reinisch
New
Hardback
University of Toronto Press
2022-10-27
240
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