
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map of Long Kesh
- Réamhrá
- Foreword
- Cage Eleven
- Early Risers
- Screws
- Cratur
- The Fire
- A Festive Back-Stab
- Sláinte
- Terrorism
- Such a Yarn
- Beware the Ides of March
- The Árd Fheis
- H-Block
- The Twelfth
- Doggone
- Remembering a Hedgehog
- Pigeons
- Christians for Freedom?
- Moles
- Harvey
- Frank Stagg, 1976
- The Change Will Do Us Good
- The Night Andy Warhol Was Banned
- In Defence of Danny Lennon
- Only Joking
- Dear John
- Nollaig Shona Dhaoibh
- Glossary
- Also by Gerry Adams
- About the Author
- Copyright