TY - BOOK ID - 78141022 TI - Irish political prisoners, 1848-1922 PY - 2003 SN - 1134600992 1280141700 9786610141708 0203987160 9780203987162 0415219914 9781134600946 9781134600984 9781134600991 9780415219914 9780415378666 1134600984 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Political prisoners KW - Political violence KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Punishment KW - Irish question. KW - Home rule KW - Penalties (Criminal law) KW - Penology KW - Corrections KW - Impunity KW - Retribution KW - Civil resistance KW - Non-resistance to government KW - Resistance to government KW - Political science KW - Insurgency KW - Nonviolence KW - Revolutions KW - Violence KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - Prisoners of conscience KW - Prisoners KW - History. KW - Political resistance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141022 AB - This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged from gentlemen revolutionaries to those who openly embraced terrorism or even full-scale guerilla war.Seán McConville provides a comprehensive survey of Irish revolutionary struggle, matching chapters on punishment of offenders with descriptions and analysis of their campaigns. Government's response to political violence was determined by ER -