‘One brother would carry another’: Emotions, political imprisonment, and the prison memoirs of the ‘blanketmen’
Published online on October 27, 2025
Abstract
Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article critically examines how the emotive experience of political imprisonment is represented in prison memoirs. Using the memoirs of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) members who were involved in prison-related protest in the 1970s and 80s as an ...
This article critically examines how the emotive experience of political imprisonment is represented in prison memoirs. Using the memoirs of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) members who were involved in prison-related protest in the 1970s and 80s as an ...