
Cage Eleven
Prison Writings from Long Kesh
Gerry Adams(Author)
Brandon (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 4. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-78849-554-7 (ISBN)
Description
Long before he became President of Sinn Fein, 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
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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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Publishing group
O'Brien Press Ltd
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78849-554-7 (9781788495547)
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Person
Former president of Sinn Fein and TD for Louth, Gerry Adams has been a published writer since 1982. His books have won critical acclaim in many quarters and have been widely translated. His writings range from local history and reminiscence to politics and short stories, and they include the fullest and most authoritative exposition of modern Irish republicanism.
Born in West Belfast in 1948 into a family with close ties to both the trade union and republican movements, Gerry Adams is the eldest of ten children. His mother was an articulate and gentle woman, his father a republican activist who had been jailed at the age of sixteen, and he was partly reared by his grandmother, who nurtured in him a love of reading.
His childhood, despite its material poverty, he has described in glowing and humorous terms, recollecting golden hours spent playing on the slopes of the mountain behind his home and celebrating the intimate sense of community in the tightly packed streets of working-class West Belfast. But even before leaving school to work as a barman, he had become aware of the inequities and inequalities of life in the north of Ireland. Soon he was engaged in direct action on the issues of housing, unemployment and civil rights.
For many years his voice was banned from radio and television by both the British and Irish governments, while commentators and politicians condemned him and all he stood for. But through those years his books made an important contribution to an understanding of the true circumstances of life and politics in the north of Ireland.
James F. Clarity of the New York Times described him in the Irish Independent as "A good writer of fiction whose stories are not IRA agitprop but serious art."
Born in West Belfast in 1948 into a family with close ties to both the trade union and republican movements, Gerry Adams is the eldest of ten children. His mother was an articulate and gentle woman, his father a republican activist who had been jailed at the age of sixteen, and he was partly reared by his grandmother, who nurtured in him a love of reading.
His childhood, despite its material poverty, he has described in glowing and humorous terms, recollecting golden hours spent playing on the slopes of the mountain behind his home and celebrating the intimate sense of community in the tightly packed streets of working-class West Belfast. But even before leaving school to work as a barman, he had become aware of the inequities and inequalities of life in the north of Ireland. Soon he was engaged in direct action on the issues of housing, unemployment and civil rights.
For many years his voice was banned from radio and television by both the British and Irish governments, while commentators and politicians condemned him and all he stood for. But through those years his books made an important contribution to an understanding of the true circumstances of life and politics in the north of Ireland.
James F. Clarity of the New York Times described him in the Irish Independent as "A good writer of fiction whose stories are not IRA agitprop but serious art."
Content
Map of Long Kesh
Reamhra
Foreword
Cage Eleven
Early Risers
Screws
Cratur
The Fire
A Festive Back-Stab
Slainte
Terrorism
Such a Yarn
Beware the Ides of March
The Ard 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
Reamhra
Foreword
Cage Eleven
Early Risers
Screws
Cratur
The Fire
A Festive Back-Stab
Slainte
Terrorism
Such a Yarn
Beware the Ides of March
The Ard 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