Projects & Outputs
Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985
- Authors
Oisín Wall
- Year
- 2025
- Category
- Book
- Keywords
- Activism, prison
- Full Citation
Wall, O. (2025) Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Part of the States, People, and the History of Social Change (number 11 in series)
Abstract
Prisoners’ Bodies is the first book on the history of the prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of prisoners’ organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large.