Titolo 'Embarrassing the State': The 'Ordinary' Prisoner Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–6 Periodico Journal of contemporary history Anno: 2020 - Volume: 55 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 388 - Pagina finale: 410
This article explores the early years of the campaign for ‘ordinary’, not politically-aligned, prisoners’ rights in Ireland. It argues that this campaign has often been overshadowed by the activities of ‘political prisoners’, who only constituted a small minority of prisoners in the period