This article has initially been published on Political Violence @ A Glance on 22 August 2018. On May 29, Benjamin H. shot four people dead…
Continue reading Radicalization in Prison: Historical Lessons for Today’s Challenges
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This article has initially been published on The Irish Story on 6 August 2018. January 30 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the…
Former Provisional Shane Paul O’Doherty argued in this newspaper last week that republican inmates didn’t qualify as prisoners of war. Here, historian Dieter Reinisch says…
The fact that Irish Republican prisoners are held in British prisons in the North of Ireland causes conflict for the Northern Ireland Prison Service. Irish…
Newly released British Government Papers reignited the debate on the 1981 Hunger Strikes in the H-Blocks of HMP Maze/Long Kesh. This debate started a few years ago with…
Continue reading The 1981 Hunger Strikes Controversy & Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
Although the Northern Irish Troubles are internationally recognised as a settled conflict, there are currently held more than one hundred Republican prisoners in prisons on…