Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. LEARNING BEHIND BARS 1
8. Chapter One The Irish Prison Arena: Republican Prisoners and the Northern Ireland Conflict 19
9. Chapter Two “Portlaoise Is an Example for This”: Portlaoise Prison Protests, 1973–1977 38
10. Chapter Three “No Prisoner Has the Right to Advance the Education of Another”: Education in Portlaoise Prison 59
11. Chapter Four The Harvey/McCaughey/Smith Cumann: Sinn Féin in Portlaoise Prison, 1978–1986 74
12. Chapter Five “He Was Just Rhyming Off Pages of It”: Internment and the Brownie Papers, 1971–1976/7 96
13. Chapter Six Marxist Esperanto and Socialism in Cell 26: Reading, Thinking, and Writing in the H-Blocks, 1983–1989 120
14. Chapter Seven “It’s Only When You Look Back …”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Peace Process in the 1990s 147
15. Conclusion An Irish Century of Camps 161
16. Interview Partners 167
17. Notes 169
18. Bibliography 193
19. Index 205