The Irish Council for prisoners overseas: campaigning on behalf of Irish prisoners abroad, Ireland, 1970s and 1980s

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2025-04-24
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Kennedy, Patricia
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The entry on the Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas (1985-present) shows how the Irish state's silence on the issue of Irish prisoners' maltreatment in British prisons opened a wide space for Church activism on the issue.
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Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas , Irish prisoners’ maltreatment in British prisons
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Kennedy, P. (2025) 'The Irish Council for prisoners overseas: campaigning on behalf of Irish prisoners abroad, Ireland, 1970s and 1980s', in Avdela, E., Berthezène, C., Lee Downs, L., Gruziel, D. and Lampropoulou, D. (eds.) Mobilizing for Welfare in Europe: The Unpolitical Politics of Social Action, 1870s-1990s. A Document Reader. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., pp. 251-258.
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© 2025, the Author. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. All rights reserved