Cage Eleven
eBook - ePub

Cage Eleven

Prison Writings from Long Kesh

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cage Eleven

Prison Writings from Long Kesh

About this book

Long before he became President of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams was a civil rights activist who took part in sit-ins, marches and protests in Northern Ireland. Along with hundreds of other men, Adams was interned on the Maidstone prison ship and in Long Kesh prison – without charge or trial – during the 1970s for his political activities. Women were interned also, in Armagh Women's Prison. Cage Eleven is his own account – sometimes passionate, often humorous – of life in Long Kesh. Written while Adams was a prisoner, the pieces were smuggled out for publication.

This updated edition includes a new introduction and sketches drawn in Cage Eleven by another prisoner at the time, Danny Devenny.

'Offers a unique insight into … the experience of internment … an unrivalled representation of the resilience and humour that were as much a part of the life of the political prisoner as the adherence to a set of political ideals.' Irish Herald

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Map of Long Kesh
  5. Réamhrá
  6. Foreword
  7. Cage Eleven
  8. Early Risers
  9. Screws
  10. Cratur
  11. The Fire
  12. A Festive Back-Stab
  13. Sláinte
  14. Terrorism
  15. Such a Yarn
  16. Beware the Ides of March
  17. The Árd Fheis
  18. H-Block
  19. The Twelfth
  20. Doggone
  21. Remembering a Hedgehog
  22. Pigeons
  23. Christians for Freedom?
  24. Moles
  25. Harvey
  26. Frank Stagg, 1976
  27. The Change Will Do Us Good
  28. The Night Andy Warhol Was Banned
  29. In Defence of Danny Lennon
  30. Only Joking
  31. Dear John
  32. Nollaig Shona Dhaoibh
  33. Glossary
  34. Also by Gerry Adams
  35. About the Author
  36. Copyright