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91 Prison J. 3 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl91 and id is 1 raw text is: Special Issue on Prisons in Ireland The Prison journal Introduction: The @2011 SAGE Publicati Reprints and permission: Significance of the sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/0032885510389532 Prison in Irish Nationalist http://tpj.sagepub.com Culture OSAGE Liam Leonard, PhD' The issue of imprisonment in Ireland has traditionally been problematic for a number of reasons, including Ireland's colonial past and the struggle for Independence from British rule in both jurisdictions. This led, in turn, to the use (and abuse) of imprisonment by forces opposed to the independence project. Thus, a sentimental residue of tacit opposition to the prison system has remained a salient characteristic of contemporary Irish life. Essentially, the prevailing system of justice (and the prison system in particular) became a symbol of injustice and oppression throughout the history of British rule for Irish nationalists in either jurisdiction. Consider this list of events from Irish nationalism's catalogue of injustices that have become part of the fabric of pan-Irish nationalist (and rogue) cul- ture in Ireland, Britain, the United States, and Australia: the imprisonment and execution of leaders such as Robert Emmet in Kilmainham Gaol in 1798, the deportations of Irish nationalist activists (alongside regular convicts) to Australian prisons throughout the 1800s, the imprisonment of 19th-century nationalist leaders such as John Mitchel, Michael Davitt, and Charles Stewart Parnell (see Behan, this issue), the legend of Ned Kelly in Australia, the trial and imprisonment of Irish writer Oscar Wilde, the Molly Maguires trials in the United States, the imprisonment and execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Kilmainham Gaol, the imprisonment of republican prisoners in Frongoch military prison in Wales and the escape of nationalist leader 'Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland Corresponding Author: Liam Leonard, Department of Humanities, Institute of Technology, Ash Lane, Sligo, Republic of Ireland Email: liamleonard@yahoo.com

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