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The Maze Prison [electronic resource] : A Hidden Story of Chaos, Anarchy and Politics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hook : Waterside Press, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (833 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781910979488
  • 1910979481
  • 9781910979471
  • 1910979473
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Maze Prison : A Hidden Story of Chaos, Anarchy and PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 365/.941619 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9649.N672 L568 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Copyright and publication details; Table of Contents; Publisherâ#x80;#x99;s note; About the author; The author of the Foreword; Acknowledgements; Dedication; List of Illustrations; Acronyms, abbreviations and other terminology; Foreword; Map of The Maze Prison; Preface; A Historical Backdrop; Long Kesh; HMP The Maze:â#x80;#x89;Special Category Status; A Changing Control Dynamic; Murder, Escapes and Direct Political Intervention; Riot and Inferno; The Gardiner Report; H-Blocks and the Blanket Protest; The Dirty Protest; Cardinal Tomas Oâ#x80;#x99;Fiaich; The First Hunger-strike (1980)
The Second Hunger-strike (1981)Defeat Snatched from the Jaws of Victory; The 1983 Mass Escape and the Hennessy Report; Erosion of Staff Control in Segregated Wings; Schism; Corruption and Murder; Descent into Chaos; Anomie; The Averill Escape; Anarchy; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; The Blantyre House Prison Affair; Against Imprisonment; Pit of Shame; The Colour of Injustice; Back cover
Summary: He Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes became a pawn in the partisan conflict that was Northern Ireland. There followed a breakdown of norms, values and control as the last of these shifted from Governors to Ministers, outside officials and even prisoners.
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Description based upon print version of record.

Cover; Copyright and publication details; Table of Contents; Publisherâ#x80;#x99;s note; About the author; The author of the Foreword; Acknowledgements; Dedication; List of Illustrations; Acronyms, abbreviations and other terminology; Foreword; Map of The Maze Prison; Preface; A Historical Backdrop; Long Kesh; HMP The Maze:â#x80;#x89;Special Category Status; A Changing Control Dynamic; Murder, Escapes and Direct Political Intervention; Riot and Inferno; The Gardiner Report; H-Blocks and the Blanket Protest; The Dirty Protest; Cardinal Tomas Oâ#x80;#x99;Fiaich; The First Hunger-strike (1980)

The Second Hunger-strike (1981)Defeat Snatched from the Jaws of Victory; The 1983 Mass Escape and the Hennessy Report; Erosion of Staff Control in Segregated Wings; Schism; Corruption and Murder; Descent into Chaos; Anomie; The Averill Escape; Anarchy; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; The Blantyre House Prison Affair; Against Imprisonment; Pit of Shame; The Colour of Injustice; Back cover

He Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes became a pawn in the partisan conflict that was Northern Ireland. There followed a breakdown of norms, values and control as the last of these shifted from Governors to Ministers, outside officials and even prisoners.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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