La «no-wash protest» i les vagues de fam de les presoneres republicanes d’Armagh (nord d’Irlanda). Una qüestió de gènere

Mireia Ros Domènech

doi:10.5565/rev/papers.2342

The no-wash protest and the hunger strikes of the republican prisoners in Armagh (Northern Ireland), a gender issue

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Mireia Ros Domènech Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Abstract

This article analyzes the role of women in the Irish republican movement, imprisoned in the only prison for women in the north of Ireland: Her Majesty’s Armagh prison between 1971 and 1982. An overview in terms of gender is made of the different campaigns developed by both male and female prisoners. Thus, analyzes the role of the republican Irish movement regarding the active role of women in the armed struggle and the behaviour that these women should have as IRA prisoners. Similarly, it examines how women subvert this role in order to empower their activism, their body and, definitively, their fight for achieving a unified and socialist 32 countries of Ireland.

Keywords

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Feminism, Criminal Justice System, Republican Movement, Irish Republican Army

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Author Biography

Mireia Ros Domènech, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Mireia Ros Domènech és doctora en Història Contemporània per la Universitat Rovira i Virgili amb la tesi Presoneres del moviment republicà irlandès. Her Majesty’s Armagh Prison, 1971 – 1982 (2013); màster en Societats Històriques i Formes Polítiques a Europa per la Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2010); llicenciada en Ciències Polítiques i de l’Administració en l’especialitat d’Anàlisi Política per la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2008).