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Out of Time
Irish Republican Prisoners
Long Kesh 1972-2000

by 

Laurence McKeown

Laurence McLeown was sentenced to life imprisonment
in April 1977. In 1981 he joined the Hunger Strike led 
by Bobby Sands and refused food for 70 days until he 
fell into a coma. He went on to spend a total of sixteen 
years in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. During that time he 
was at the centre of protest and struggle against the British 
government's attempts to criminalise republicanism and 
destroy commitment to the republican ideal.

In this book, the author records the experience of himself 
and twenty-four other leading republicans. The prisoners 
span the period from the early 1970s until the closing of the 
H-Blocks at Long Kesh in 2000, following the provisions for 
the release of political prisoners which formed part of the 
historic Good Friday Agreement 1998. The book is based on 
McKeown's doctoral thesis, Unrepentant Fenian Bastards: 
the Social Construction of an Irish Republican Prisoner 
Community.


156 x 234mm

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